--- description: Because right now it sounds like he's saying something a lot less nice title: This Baby Really Needs to Learn How to Properly Pronounce "Thank You" image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt731cf2a17d534def/69868992e8524b765c602428/screen-shot-2014-04-08-at-3-10-27-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Baby Really Needs to Learn How to Properly Pronounce "Thank You" by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 8, 2014 8:00 PM CUT  by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 8, 2014 8:00 PM CUT This one-and-a-half-year-old baby named Lloyd is _trying_ to be polite by saying “thank you” but unfortunately, he has some trouble pronouncing it, so it sounds like he’s saying something a bit less cordial. His father, Christopher Bennison, posted this video on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04jS1Iy0E1I "undefined"), explaining that he really needs to help his son, who’s half Swedish and half Canadian, work on his pronunciation. “He’s a year and a half and is of course soaking up everything he hears,” Christopher [told](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/04/lloyd-says-thank-you-video%5Fn%5F5093127.html "undefined") the _Huffington Post_ in an email. “We’ve been really making an effort to watch our language around him so this was both a bit of a shock and absolutely hilarious. It was a relief when we realized he was trying to say ‘thank you.'” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/54131/baby-tries-saying-thank-you/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/54131/baby-tries-saying-thank-you/"},"headline":"This Baby Really Needs to Learn How to Properly Pronounce \"Thank You\"","datePublished":"2014-04-08T20:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:39.319Z","description":"Because right now it sounds like he's saying something a lot less nice","url":"https://time.com/54131/baby-tries-saying-thank-you/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Babies","viral","kids","language","Viral video","Toddlers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt731cf2a17d534def/69868992e8524b765c602428/screen-shot-2014-04-08-at-3-10-27-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt731cf2a17d534def/69868992e8524b765c602428/screen-shot-2014-04-08-at-3-10-27-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-04-08 at 3.10.27 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/54131/baby-tries-saying-thank-you/","name":"This Baby Really Needs to Learn How to Properly Pronounce \"Thank You\""}}]}] ```