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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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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 16/01/2021 08:19

And my little Gdd was so excited about Farmer Christmas coming.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 16/01/2021 08:18

I love the way someone’s little Gds called the little person in the manger (she’d knitted a Nativity set) was Baby Cheeses.

MyMistakeToMake · 29/11/2020 22:05

@Sideorderofchips

Myy son used to call Santa 'satan' when he was little. I have a video of him looking at a picture of santa saying 'awww.... Satan...'
🤣🤣
Sideorderofchips · 29/11/2020 17:24

Myy son used to call Santa 'satan' when he was little. I have a video of him looking at a picture of santa saying 'awww.... Satan...'

MyMistakeToMake · 22/11/2020 21:37

@Monkeyseesmonkeydoesnt

My 4yr old calls footprints "poomfrints" I think it's adorable
That's so cute
Monkeyseesmonkeydoesnt · 07/11/2020 20:10

My 4yr old calls footprints "poomfrints"
I think it's adorable

CanSomeoneElsePickMyName · 01/11/2020 09:12

Brilliant! I mean I don't often use the word 'hypotenuse' in daily life but if it ever does come up then I will think of this post!

keeprocking · 29/10/2020 21:56

I'm having a lazy trawl through some Classis threads and found this.
A pupil called the hypotenuse as Harry Potter's Pubes and every subsequent year when I introduced the word I had to stop myself laughing.
Until one of them died I never knew that INXS wasn't Inks.
Helicopters were jellyhoppers when the children were small, I still use it and they're in their 40s.
My father always said pre-stinked for precinct and would never be corrected.
In the NW chimneys were almost always chimbleys.
A question in a pub quiz was about King Edward the eleventh.
Vive les differences, they make us interesting!

CatRamsey · 30/05/2020 13:23

Ooh I remembered another
When my brother was really little in school he started singing a song about the tiny tupples that come out at Easter time.

He meant tadpoles.

CatRamsey · 30/05/2020 13:18

When I was a kid:
Photo albun
Reorkshire pudding
Clift (instead of cliff)

Only since reading mumsnet recently have I realised its 'respite' not 'rest bite'

I have friend who's 30 who keeps saying she feels like she's under so much 'pure pressure'... I'm not sure if she means peer pressure or if pure pressure is a thing? She also says Chester draws instead of chest of draws.

Oh and I've always said wardrope!

IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone · 30/05/2020 12:49

And my middle one used to say 'an dem' 😂

IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone · 30/05/2020 12:49

My daughter used to say 'Har men' of amen 😂

Heathcliff27 · 30/05/2020 01:37

My mum always told the story about my auntie when they were little. Saying grace before mealtimes my auntie thought Amen was Ham In and it meant you were now allowed to start eating

TimeWastingButFun · 30/05/2020 01:29

Our gardener calls the rhododendrons 'ruddydemdruns' 😂

ladykuga · 30/05/2020 01:11

My 6 year old dd thinks she's Beyonce. In between my tears of laugher I had to point out that the lyrics are "All the single ladies" and not "I'm a single letter". 😂

Gammeldragz · 30/05/2020 00:19

@Imonlymoominafterall

I never understood why there was a song called Knights in White Satin until embarrassingly recently.
I didn't get this and had to Google it. Showed DH (music buff) and he said no it's definitely Knights, (googled again) - he says Google isn't always right and he's definitely seen it on the album... This song was played at my Uncle's funeral, I was so sure it was Knights. Never questioned why they were wearing satin though...
VirginWestCoast · 29/05/2020 23:55

Have only just realised that the lyrics to Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" are
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers

Not

Your own personal Jesus
Someone to feel your breasts

I have sung that quite a lot (in front of quite a lot of people actually). I guess that hearing prayers is a more Jesus thing to do really.

Mama05 · 29/05/2020 23:35

My grandma use To say ‘i want never gets’ when I would say I wanted a biscuit

I use to think she said I will never forget

So I’d respond back and say ‘I will never forget my biscuit’ thinking these were the magic words to get me a biscuit out of the squirrel shaped biscuit barrel !

OwlPop · 25/05/2020 23:48

My grandma, after perusing the dessert menu when we were out in a restaurant, told the waiter she'd like ' the portfolios please!'

(She meant profiteroles)

Destroyedpeople · 25/05/2020 21:10

Haha my daughter thought that Eton mess was eaten mess.....

IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone · 25/05/2020 21:08
  • Few years ago, son away at university, called for recipe for cornby??? Corn? Corn on the cob? No, cornby, cornby fash. Corned beef hash. How he went on to get a first astounds me.* My favourite one
IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone · 25/05/2020 21:06

My 6 year old can't say watermelon, only waterlemon. It's so cute though!
Our eldest came out of school one day saying they had made her eat lemon and she didn't like it but they made her try it. I was a bit annoyed until we deduced it was melon and not lemon Grin

Poliann · 16/05/2020 23:26

I always thought in the rhyme baa baa black sheep that the little boy lived down the drain. I always imagined his little head popping up and the bag of wool making it more comfortable for him down the drain.

caribooshriek · 16/05/2020 21:05

My dd used to say "eloctrofied" instead of "electrocuted".

StellaDelMare · 16/05/2020 21:02

I as a very young child I also used to say buggered instead of cupboard!

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