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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

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StellaDelMare · 16/05/2020 21:01

When I was young I thought 'to make ends meet' was to make hens meat BlushGrinGrin

cassie2and2 · 16/05/2020 20:45

an old boyfriend suggested we go to Jollyons for cup of coffee, it turned out to be Jo Lyons

Doneanddone · 16/05/2020 19:41

My MIL says ‘dacorations’ instead of decorations. It's incredibly annoying as we have corrected her numerous times.

Tilia · 16/05/2020 18:49

It's taken my son about three years to accept that the word "rant" does not rhyme with "aunt" or "can't". His argument was that we aren't "northern" and compared it with our pronunciation of words like bath, grass and plant. He's now at uni, but when he's home and I happen to have clean underwear to return to him, I always say "here are your pahnts" Grin

DanceItOut · 16/05/2020 17:30

Oh and a colleague from the job before that used to sing along to every song on the radio with what she thought were the lyrics but didn’t even make sense. In one song “party all the time” became “fanny on a church”.

DanceItOut · 16/05/2020 17:24

My work colleague didn’t know where eggs came from. She thought they were made in a factory.

dingit · 04/05/2020 21:45

My dd, also at university thought the well known Harper Lee book was Tequila Mockingbird. Thank god it wasn't on her English lit syllabus Grin

toomanyplants · 04/05/2020 21:27

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.

joystir59 · 04/05/2020 21:18

Armitage Shanks

GinWithASplashOfTonic · 04/05/2020 21:11

In my West Country sound like a pirate accent Pork & Stork sound the same. All my R sounds are long

Can't fathom how they don't sound the same

Mustbetimeforachange · 04/05/2020 21:09

There was a brilliant spoof "Our Tune" of "I can see Deirdre now that Lorraine has gone"

SoOverItt · 04/05/2020 20:58

@fronttoback That’s gold 😂

fronttoback · 04/05/2020 20:44

"I can see clearly now Lorraine has gone.."

lowlandLucky · 04/05/2020 17:42

One of my clan thinks animals are called aminals and to be fair i have to stop and think what they are called.

Mustbetimeforachange · 04/05/2020 17:38

DD thought "qualms" was pronounced "qual-ums" until she was 22. She had only ever seen it written, or hadn't connected the two things, and that was how she heard it in her head.

Lordfrontpaw · 04/05/2020 17:30

Dad was on hospital - what mum meant to say (loudly on the ward) was ‘it’s a congenital ailment you know’. She forgot the ‘con’...

Dialdownthedrama · 04/05/2020 17:25

Apparently there are more than a few adults on MN who think the word is restbite.

Ilovecats14 · 04/05/2020 17:18

I agree with the people saying pork and stork rhyme!

Ilovecats14 · 04/05/2020 17:16

I know the shops called Matalan but say it is Mataland. Is it just my family that does this?

Wishiwasrunning2 · 04/05/2020 17:05

Cufflinks = Cluffinks in our house!!

Creation · 03/05/2020 11:56

Also;

Parachute (parasol)

Creation · 03/05/2020 11:55

DD aged 6

Bedtimes table - bedside table

MinnieJackson · 03/05/2020 11:53

My 6 year old can't say watermelon, only waterlemon. It's so cute though!

Myimaginaryfamiliarhasfleas · 01/11/2019 20:23

For the past thirty years DH and I have been unable to say "muscles" properly. Ever since DD wrote "mucsles" in a piece of school work Grin

Whatsthatbrightlght · 01/11/2019 18:01

DS couldn’t say scrambled or adverts when he was younger.

We still say mangled and avderts in this house!

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