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To wonder how my dd got to 14 thinking this was the real phrase?

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 03/10/2019 16:23

We've all be ill on and off since they went back to school.
One morning Dd was telling me that she had a 'bummed up nose' I asked her to repeat it and she said the same.
I tried to clarify what she was saying and told her it was actually 'bunged up nose'. She laughed and thought I was joking!
She's decided she's going to carry on saying it the way she does Grin
Please tell me it's not just us. Confused

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DonPablo · 03/10/2019 16:24

My husband is almost 40. He was astounded to learn that the dessert he loves is not called Eat And Mess...

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Chloe8823 · 03/10/2019 16:25

Never heard "bummed up nose" before, only bunged up! 🤣

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Chloe8823 · 03/10/2019 16:26

Eat and mess, brilliant!!

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slipperywhensparticus · 03/10/2019 16:30

Volksdragon my son renamed them and i think its cooler

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SnugglySnerd · 03/10/2019 16:32

Grin I love Volksdragon!

It's amazing how many secondary children still think an Inset day is an Insect Day!

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mrspotatohed · 03/10/2019 16:34

My dad says wardroVE instead of wardrobe and garlic Glove (to rhyme with Clove) I've spent years correcting him to no avail.

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/10/2019 16:37

I'm trying to convince my 6yo it's Show and Tell, not Show Hotel.

I thought the StarWars weapons were called Light Savers. I was in my twenties when, during a discussion about swords, it was Light Sabres.

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whiteivy · 03/10/2019 16:39

DP thought Chest of Drawers was Chester Drawers

Not quite the same, but when DC1 was younger, an envelope was an ombleflope.

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AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 16:40

I thought the StarWars weapons were called Light Savers

Same and I also thought it was Dark Vadar Blush

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whiteivy · 03/10/2019 16:41

Oh and another, while I was at college I had a friend who thought it it was "quman being" not "human being". We didn't believe her and thought she was joking with us until she pulled up an essay from her old class where she'd included the word "quman being". She knew that "human" was a word, but for some unknown reason, it was "quman being". Strange.

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Funkyslippers · 03/10/2019 16:41

I always pronounced "ventriloquist" as "ventroloquist" until OH told me when I was about 27. Nobody corrected me before that! I also used to think it was "Row row row your boat gently down the street".

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whiteivy · 03/10/2019 16:41

@AryaStarkWolf I thought both of those!!!!!!

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TimeforanotherChange · 03/10/2019 16:41

Youngest daughter used to say 'Is it breakerful?' as a toddler when told 'Don't touch that!' and we used to agree, 'Yep, it's breakerful!'

She rang me from uni to say 'Breakerful's a real word - right?'

I am ashamed of my parenting skills...

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FreckledLeopard · 03/10/2019 16:42

DD is 18 and recently asked about any likely 'inheritage' - love the expression!!!

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Yabbers · 03/10/2019 16:42

DD still calls lava Loba, because that's how Dora always said it.

As a teenager When I was making a suggestion to do to things at once, I said we could kill a bird with two one stones. I use that ever since and have to think what the actual saying is.

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CaveMum · 03/10/2019 16:43

We live in Suffolk, my DD (5.5) constantly refers to the nearby town of Bury St Edmunds as “Berries and Edmonds”

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MadisonAvenue · 03/10/2019 16:43

My 19 year old son thought it was Eating (eatin') Mess until recently.

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Spied · 03/10/2019 16:44

DD always wears her Piniform to school Grin

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AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 16:44

@whiteivy Grin

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MadisonAvenue · 03/10/2019 16:44

Oh, and he also thought that the song Live and Let Die was Little Men Die.

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OddBoots · 03/10/2019 16:45

I was about that age when I realised that what I thought were fork pies were in fact pork pies.

DD thought until she was about 8 that I would weave her hair into 'flats'.

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CatsOnCatnip · 03/10/2019 16:45

Toad Path instead of towpath.

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DCIRozHuntley · 03/10/2019 16:46

We've had a few in our family.

The early bird gets the world.
Trickle treat.
Dressing down (for dressing gown).

There was someone on here who thought the game Pass the Parcel was called Parcel Parcel. Don't have that problem up north with the short A!

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TheOrigBrave · 03/10/2019 16:47

I gave my head a wobble when I realised that the things in the sea were "Sea Defences" not "Seedy Fences". I was about 40 when the penny dropped.

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Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 16:54

We are bad parents and our language is not always that polite. Our child was convinced that on our lazy days, we "couldn't be asked" to do stuff!

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