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

942 replies

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

OP posts:
Alexapourmeadrink · 05/10/2019 08:25

@bluntness100 he’s right!

Judith45 · 05/10/2019 08:03

I thought the song ‘the first cut is the deepest’ was ‘these curtains are cheapest ‘!

HospitalToast · 05/10/2019 07:41

I used to read quite a lot, but I didn’t always take time to look closely at some words. I only discovered that ‘Netherlandals’ was in fact Neanderthals in my 20s. I still have to stop and consciously think about how to say it.

Tubs11 · 05/10/2019 06:45

Sister thought cappuccino was cup of Chino. Mind you, it was the 80's

MrsP2018 · 05/10/2019 05:42

they all do rhyme but thinking about it, if said in a proper Yorkshire accent it would be... powerk (nearest spelling I can think of to pronounce it!)

AgnesNaismith · 05/10/2019 03:10

I was offered ‘skinned milk’ in a hotel last weekend Hmm

OkPedro · 05/10/2019 02:39

minimum I imagine you say pour like paw which rhymes with awe?
I’m Irish so the letter R is always pronounced

MiniMum97 · 05/10/2019 02:31

St-awe-rk.
Pour-k.

Again not helping. Awe and pour also rhyme!

MiniMum97 · 05/10/2019 02:24

Pork, stork and fork all rhyme. That's not helping!

MiniMum97 · 05/10/2019 02:22

Pork does rhyme with stork?

HennyPennyHorror · 05/10/2019 01:49

WeeGobshite vocaroo.com/ record your voice here

safariboot · 05/10/2019 01:42

Green Witch Meriden.

(I knew the correct spelling, but that's how I pronounced it for years.)

Robstersgirl · 05/10/2019 01:24

@LemonPrism
that's the American pronunciation tbf
No way! I genuinely didn’t know that! Every days a school day! Blush

kitnkaboodle · 05/10/2019 01:19

Ah sorry- not iklboo .. whoever posted the Barry Davis thing ..

kitnkaboodle · 05/10/2019 01:17

Iklboo ... that comes from an old Radio 1 jingle "ooh Gary Davis, ooh Gary Davis, ooh Gary Davis on your radio!!"
My personal mix up as a child was cold sore and coleslaw. I kid you not Envy

HennyPennyHorror · 05/10/2019 01:17

Just a note...I live in Australia and "aborigines" isn't a PC term. We say "Aboriginal people" or some people say Indigenous...but I have spoken directly to Aboriginal people who don't like the term Indigenous...one woman told me it made her sound like a native plant.

Ideally, people are referred to by their tribe. But there are many...so unless you know that it's hard to do. Here in South Australia for example we have the Kokatha people, the Tjarutja, the Pitjantjatjara...and you'd say "This is Anna, she's a Kokatha woman"

crabb · 05/10/2019 00:54

Ah, there’s a thought Grin. Thanks!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 05/10/2019 00:51

Aborigines, maybe, @crabb?

crabb · 05/10/2019 00:30

The granny who was worried about the aubergines in the Australian bushfires upthread - I don’t get it!

GabsAlot · 05/10/2019 00:01

My dh says tuthpaste-hes welsh apprently its a thing it drives me nuts

Localocal · 04/10/2019 23:52

My son, who can't hear on one side, spent years referring to his deaf ear as his "death ear."

And his older brother, after years of me telling him to stop being a "bull in a china shop" turned to me one day and said, "surely a china shop is exactly where a bowl is supposed to be? Why is it wrong to be a bowl in a china shop?"

Bouledeneige · 04/10/2019 23:47

My DD used to sing Amy Winehouses classic when she was a little girl:

'Tried to make me go to greenhouse I said no no no....

Youmakemewannashout · 04/10/2019 23:40

My mam was really excited when my brother took her out in his posh new sports car. She dashed back in to tell us all that ,
“ It’s so powerful and when he put the brakes on I was nearly EJACULATED out of the seat “!

Mafrid2 · 04/10/2019 23:37

Our son used to sing along to motorhead's 'The ace of spades', there's a line that says gamblings for fools. He used to sing ambulance for fools 😂

iklboo · 04/10/2019 23:36

If my dm had to break sharply in the car she would always say "woah Barry Davis" she doesn't have a clue who it is or why she says this.

Could it be the radio DJ Gary Davies? His jingle used to be 'Whooo, Gary Davies, whooo Gary Davies, whooo Gary Davies on the radio'