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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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TheDizzyRascal · 04/10/2019 11:23

My husband calls washing up liquid "Fairy Up Liquid"

pinkelephantsanddietcoke · 04/10/2019 10:59

@caringcarer my MIL says Mataland too! And Primart.

My friend says Frunyal for funeral... drives me nuts!

recededpronunciation · 04/10/2019 10:52

Also, “Sing who’s Anna”

recededpronunciation · 04/10/2019 10:44

Youngest came home from junior school once very disappointed that what she thought was going to be Korea Day was actually Career Day.

AryaStarkWolf · 04/10/2019 10:30

My take on the stork V pork thing. I believe that many people are pronouncing stork how I would pronounce stalk, which definitely does not rhyme with pork.

Yeah but Stalk with an R in it :p

Bouledeneige · 04/10/2019 10:24

My friend at college wanted to paint a Muriel on her wall.

We call dinner ding dongs in our house. And conditioner is 'unditioner'.

I've been sitting on the train testing out saying pork and Stork and fork. They sound exactly the same to me.

Stalk of a plant is different though.

But work is werk.

And boot and foot are different.
Look is like book.

In my London accent.

hazell42 · 04/10/2019 10:01

Listening to music in the car, my son says "play 'take my picture'"
I was listening to prodigy.
His favourite song was actually called "smack my bitch up."
Oh dear

MrsLinManuelMiranda · 04/10/2019 09:50

@DressingGown I also misheard the Wombles of Wimbledon, but I thought that the Wombles were common as in not posh! @thatonesmine I thought the Irish PM was the tea shop! @strangerthongs I also thought Bryan Adams had his first real sex dream. @Warpdrive and @Slappadabass PMSL at Cork and pre Madonna.

diddl · 04/10/2019 09:44

"Scottish folk will understand!"

You don't have to be Scottish to understand!

Xiaoxiong · 04/10/2019 09:41

DS2 calls Audi's "Howdy's" like they're some kind of country western vehicle. It gives me a giggle to imagine them only being driven by rednecks and cowboys.

Sherloidbaisherloid · 04/10/2019 09:40

Not mine but I saw on Facebook someone’s husband thought the words to the Christmas song were ‘a wean in a manger’ Scottish folk will understand! It did make me laugh

BrusselSprouts12345 · 04/10/2019 09:39

@MrsLinManuelMiranda where I'm from (east London/Essex) there definitely are people who would pronounce both pork and stork like walk and stalk. My dad's side of the family and DP's family, are very working class and that is how they would say it. My mum's side would not.

MrsLinManuelMiranda · 04/10/2019 09:37

My take on the stork V pork thing. I believe that many people are pronouncing stork how I would pronounce stalk, which definitely does not rhyme with pork.

NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace · 04/10/2019 09:20

My best friend always assumed that God was called Peter (he was dragged to church as a youngster) .....

..... Thanks Peter God Grin

Yabbers · 04/10/2019 09:14

They are different sounds (in Scotland)

@Motherinlawsdung

We’re in Scotland. One of DD’s friends would rhyme these words. One of her parents is from Orkney, where that sound is definitely the same in both words. With Scotland being a big place with a very wide range of accents, I dare say that’s not the only area that rhymes it.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 04/10/2019 09:07

I think I've got it! Is pork "poo-aw-rrk" and stork "staw-rrk?" If so, how on earth did that come about?

OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg · 04/10/2019 09:05

With my mind she runs...

Mind. Blown.

UnlawfulBananaPeeler · 04/10/2019 08:59

My LO used to call babybel cheese ‘baby Annabelle cheese’

And my other LO when he sings Humpty Dumpty sings ‘horses and horses and horses and man’

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 04/10/2019 08:46

My husband who is 40 loves 'mint chock chick' ice cream. I've given up correcting him 

Friends daughter calls it mint chop chimp

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happytoseeyou · 04/10/2019 08:35

My youngest won't be shifted from saying "Winter Binds" (rather than wind turbines)

Drivemecrazy1974 · 04/10/2019 08:33

I used to think that Spock's catchphrase on Star Trek was 'Live long and proper'. I finally admitted this to my husband a couple of years ago, he thought it was mildly amusing. I still say it stands as a good way to live your life though!

Geneve · 04/10/2019 08:25

To add another complication, I am Scottish and can hear the difference between pork and stork quite clearly in OTHER SCOTTISH PEOPLE'S ACCENTS. Because in Aberdeen we say pork with a short o to rhyme with stork. Had years of my Glaswegian parents trying to drum it out of me... See also oven with that same o sound rather than a 'uh' sound, v typical in the north-east!

Snuffkindle · 04/10/2019 08:12

My 13 year old likes to get accommodations when he does good work at school. He looks baffled when we suggest they could be comendations

SwizzelStick · 04/10/2019 08:09

It's with my mind she runs.

Yabadee · 04/10/2019 08:04

West central Scotland here and pork and stork (and work actually) sound nothing like each other 😂

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