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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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Robstersgirl · 04/10/2019 21:48

My daughter calls compost com-post, like mail. Hmm

DoveOfPiss · 04/10/2019 21:35

Just thought of another one: my kids used to get so confused when I'd tell them to 'pull the chain' when they'd been to the toilet. I explained it means to flush it. It wasn't until we went to my university open day and used one of the older toilet blocks that I was able to show them a proper chain flush with an overhead cistern... Suddenly they understood!!!
('But Mummy, were all your toilets like that?' 'Erm well, yes...') I'm only 50 ffs!

Iwantacookie · 04/10/2019 21:31

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. Confused

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 04/10/2019 21:25

My daughter, when she was very little, Margar instead of Grandma - my mum loved it.

All the grandkids have called my mum 'mam-mar' except my youngest who went straight in with 'gran-mar' she was gutted!

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 04/10/2019 21:22

I Until I started learning to drive I thought it was jewel carriage way not dual carriage way 🙈😂

My daughters thought the same. The middle one asked where the jewels were. I was so confused

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WendyMad · 04/10/2019 21:21

I think you are probably right, Myimaginarycat. My aunt is in her sixties, and was brought up by fairly old-fashioned parents.

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 04/10/2019 21:20

So I'm cheating on my own thread here but once when dd1 was finishing up a call on my Mobile to my mum I told her to put the phone down. She looked really confused and put the handset on the table whilst my mum mumbled her goodbyes. So I said 'no, hang up. Hang the phone up' she looked even more confused until I said 'just press the red button' 🤦‍♀️

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Myimaginarycathasfleas · 04/10/2019 21:13

I don't think forrid is posh as much as old fashioned. I still say it because that's what I grew up with but my DC would definitely say fore-head.

DoveOfPiss · 04/10/2019 21:12

My DS now 14, used to pronounce 'scythe' as 'ski-thee'. It wasn't until we listened to him read that we realised nobody had told him the correct pronunciation (although he'd never asked!)

My one is epitome. I say 'epitommy' but read it as 'epitohme'. Every. Bloody. Time Blush. I annoy myself

DS2's school sent a newsletter the other day saying how the school would try their 'upmost' to maintain their good results... Hmm

WendyMad · 04/10/2019 21:07

I used to say forrid as a kid. Thought it was really strange as a teenager when it was pointed out it's actually forehead. I blame my mother.

Celestine70, surely “forrid” is the posh pronunciation (in SE England, anyway). I and most people I know say “forehead”, but my upper-middle-class aunt insists it's pronounced “forrid”, and quotes the rhyme: “There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good she was very very good, but when she was bad she was horrid”.

ForensicAccountant · 04/10/2019 21:02

I still remember the hungry carpet pillow

AmberAndAlexsMum · 04/10/2019 21:00

My ex-husband - chararistics instead of characteristics - drove me nuts
My daughter, when she was very little, Margar instead of Grandma - my mum loved it.

expatinspain · 04/10/2019 21:00

My DD had a haemorrhoid when she was little after a bad tummy bug and has called it a herring bone ever since for some reason 😂

When I was younger I used to say emancipated instead of emaciated. I finally found out I was using completely the wrong word when my uni tutor was completely confused with what I was trying to say in an essay I wrote! 🤦🏽‍♀️

Soosiesoo · 04/10/2019 20:55

Dd6 ... popcorn = cockporn. Grin

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 04/10/2019 20:53

Well if we're doing lyrics

"I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Tesco"

Harls1969 · 04/10/2019 20:37

My daughter thought, up until she was around 16, that mince pies were made of minced beef! She thought her room was a Bomsey Tit (it looks like a bomb's hit it!). Husband calls windowsills window seals and says 'illegible' instead of 'eligible'.

janj2301 · 04/10/2019 20:34

We use spoonerisms in our family. "Par cark" and "chish and fips" spring to mind. I've always said chimley and hubby mispronounces hyperbole no matter how many times i correct him

mushroom3 · 04/10/2019 20:30

DS as a toddler used to run around singing "conker pear"-go compare

PinkPanther27 · 04/10/2019 20:29

We had wegetables (vegetables) and wampire (vampire), and glubs instead of gloves.

Choclips · 04/10/2019 20:23

Davecoachesgavemetheclap @AryaStarkWolf - All these years and it's make it I swear !!! Can't believe it.

TroysMammy · 04/10/2019 20:22

I used to call markers maggots and pigeons peegees, but I was only about 2.

RoyEastmannKodak · 04/10/2019 20:15

@wooo69 that reminds me that my DS now 27 thought pens were “pengons for years because we were apparently always saying “where’s the pen gone?”

clippityclop · 04/10/2019 20:15

Our daughter called butterflies 'flutterbies' which has stuck. And we put salt and ginivar on our chips.

Abbifa · 04/10/2019 20:15

Until I started learning to drive I thought it was jewel carriage way not dual carriage way 🙈😂

RoyEastmannKodak · 04/10/2019 20:12

My DP calls pomegranates “ponegranetes” and beagles “beadles”. He’s knows that’s not right but grew up saying it and sees no reason to chance his ways.. or words Smile

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