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

@DaveCoachesgavemetheclap Where I am, 'Old Timer's' is simply a colloquialism, a slang term for Alzheimers Disease. Just a play on words. But everyone knows what the real term is, it's just a play on words. ie Old Timers, Alzheimers happens to old people, you know what I mean.

Oh, yes, MollysMummy2010, I used to use picture-scue a lot in my teens! I also loved discombobulated, which I think may be an actual, underused, word, and of course, my ghast is completely flabbered by the goings on of Cheeky Feckers on MN!
*ghast should be gast but I like it better with the extra letter!

Favourite quotation from my children. Son number three asked me if it was school on Monday or if there was an incest day 😳

I always say Icing and ice-en-ing not icing.

Not sure why I throw the extra n in but I do regardless of numerous corrections I still continue to say it like that

My mum always tells me about my great grandma when hearing of some bush fires in Australia saying “it’s all those aubergines I feel sorry for” 🤦🏼‍♀️

@Dljlr Sack the juggler

I guess so, Derxa, but it's a useful term in that most people would know roughly what kind of pronunciation/accent you mean by it.

Picture- scu for picturesque anyone? My eight year old self backs out quietly.....

I have a cousin who says thilthy. And theather.

My friend is Glaswegian. Stork sounds like storrek and pork sounds like pock when she says it.

She's wrong though, obviously 🙄

I used to call my eyes eye bulb instead of eye ball 🤷🏻‍♀️ Probably until mid to late teens. I knew it was wrong but it just made more sense to me haha

because let's face it, not all people from that region speak RP English!
I would contend that RP English is very hard to define nowadays.

lazylinguist - I was at an "Oxbridge Rejects" red brick university in the South West, long before the Russell Group came into being, though it is now RG and still thinks very highly of itself. I used to be good at French to English translation, though the course was heavily literature biased at the time, which is why I chose to go there. If I could, I would retire there but things have changed too much, so I'll be staying in southern Europe!

@LittleDancers - I think that Ah-liss-ee-ah is a valid pronunciation of Alicia.

Mother in law - chaos was chos, ie it was chos in Sheffield market today. When she was very elderly she had a gentleman friend, who sometimes took a female neighbour out for afternoon tea, when MIL found out, she wasn't going to be part of an international triangle

Lazy I mean by the pronunciation that is used in general rather than specific to regions or determined by spelling.

But there is no 'general'. All pronunciation is determined to a certain extent by region. There isn't anywhere that isn't a region. You can refer to standard English, meaning London, SE England, Home Counties, RP type accent, but that's only standard because it was decided to designate it as standard. It's still the pronunciation of a particular region (or of a particular class of a particular region - because let's face it, not all people from that region speak RP English!).

My sister's MIL was telling her about a neighbour who had Old Timers Disease. Turned out it was Alzheimers.

She was also on a first aid course & the 'expert' delivering the training kept referring to the 'Heimlich Remover'

I’ve an Irish accent - quite a neutral one - and pork, stork and fork all rhyme to me.

My dad used to think little orphan Annie was called little awful nanny when he was young.

Not that @Bluntness100 will know this but we've disagreed a lot over the years. I teach English to foreign kids and I think she's 💯 right on this.

To @ginginchinchin and the pp who wrote the below I loved your kids understanding of the songs
Oh, and he also thought that the song Live and Let Die was Little Men Die.

Lazy I mean by the pronunciation that is used in general rather than specific to regions or determined by spelling. My mother says "Lewk" for "look" and "Bewk" for "book" as that's her local dialect. It's not a general way of pronouncing those words though. Far more people than not would say "look" with the "uh" sound rather than the "oo" sound. However when you think about it, saying "Look" as "Lewk" actually makes more sense, in terms of how it's spelt

It was only when I was early 20's and I heard someone say it for the first time that I realised 'hyperbole' was 'hi-per-bal-ee' rather than 'hyper-bowl'

I know someone who says 'lickle' instead of little and it makes me want to do physical harm to her . I obviously won't but it reallyreally bugs me

Pinacola Ah, the younger reader let loose on the Catherine Cooksons and similar

My friend and I struggled with the name "Alicia" in the Mallory Towers books. We'd never heard such a name before and had no clue how to pronounce it. My friend insisted it was "Aleck-a". I was sure it was Ah-liss-ee-ah. (still do). Imagine my surprise when I discovered as an adult it could be pronounced as Ah-leee-sha". What what what?!

YY to those who posted about Knights in White Satin and those common wombles earlier on the thread. I was well into adulthood before I found out about those 2 (as a non-Londoner I'd never heard of Wimbledon Common either).

Lack of London knowledge also caused a lot of embarrassment when I was a student. I told friends that I had an interview for a summer job in Chiswick and wondered why they all burst out laughing. How was I supposed to know that the "w" was silent?