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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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WellVersedInEtiquette · 03/10/2019 20:31

*i wonder how many people are sat murmuring words to themselves because of this post grin
Keep all the posts coming

I'm sitting murmering 'whore' to myself, DP asks "scuse me?. Says I, " just Mumsnet stuff". "Ahh ok" says he😅*

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Iwantacookie · 03/10/2019 20:30

Horse / hoarse sound the same to me.
As does pork and fork

SaraNade · 03/10/2019 20:29

How can you get a h-oh sound out of h-oar, for hoarse? The it would be 'hoe'-erce. Or hoe-arse. Instead whore-s.

This is really confusing me. I'll just have to put it down to different accents.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 20:29

AryaStarkWolf - no.
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/horse
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hoarse

jelly79 · 03/10/2019 20:29

Girl I know thought buildings were made of bricks and water

SunsetOverEasterIsland · 03/10/2019 20:28

The song 'Is this the way to Amarillo' was popular again when DS was little. Instead of 'and sweet Marie who waits for me', DS used to sing 'and submarine who waits for me'. To this day I still can't sing the right words and always makes me smile 😃

lazylinguist · 03/10/2019 20:28

There is no 'nope' about it. Surely you're not claiming that people are lying about how things sound in their accent, or that one accent is wrong and the other is right? Because that would be either spectacularly dimwitted or pretty offensive.

Rainonmyguitar · 03/10/2019 20:26

I wonder how many people are sat murmuring words to themselves because of this post grin
Keep all the posts coming

I'm sitting murmering 'whore' to myself, DP asks "scuse me?. Says I, " just Mumsnet stuff". "Ahh ok" says he😅

SaraNade · 03/10/2019 20:25

Nope. Hoarse is Hoar-ss

lazylinguist · 03/10/2019 20:24

lazylinguist but it's an ohh and an aww sound, how can they sound the same

Seriously - how can you not understand that things sound different in different accents? That's what an accent is. Also, have you never heard any southern English people speak? I've heard plenty of Scottish and Irish people speak - that's why I know that things like pour and paw don't sound the same in their accents.

Mangoandbroccoli · 03/10/2019 20:23

My mum used to say "mind the wigs don't bite" to me every bedtime. I spent an embarrassingly long time quietly wondering what the 'wigstone' was 😳

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 20:23

@SaraNade hoarse has an ohh sound h-oh-ers

Bigearringsbigsmile · 03/10/2019 20:22

I am a northerner and definitely dont sound like the queen!
Horse and hoarse rhyme as do sure and shore, pour and poor.
Completely accept different accents yada yada but cannot 'hear' it in my head no matter how hard I try! So frustrating!

SaraNade · 03/10/2019 20:21

@AryaStarkWolf There is no 'ohh' sound in either. Both have the aww sound.

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 03/10/2019 20:20

I wonder how many people are sat murmuring words to themselves because of this post Grin
Keep all the posts coming. Smile

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AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 20:20

@lazylinguist but it's an ohh and an aww sound, how can they sound the same 😂

SaraNade · 03/10/2019 20:19

@AryaStarkWolf I am trying so hard to imagine them being said, but even with it written like that, I can only hear the same pronunciation, lol.

Whore-ss
and
Whore-ss

Haw the same as whore. I think it's the 'ore' part. Ore/haw (awe) is pronounced the same in my accent. I how I wish I could hear how others say it.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 20:19

Motherinlawsdung - yes, absolutely, and the rest!

Motherinlawsdung · 03/10/2019 20:18

And the Queen’s pronunciation is irrelevant, bless her. She and her family say hice for house.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 20:17

"/or/ and /ur/ are contrasted so that shore and sure are pronounced differently, as are pour and poor."
No they're not!

lazylinguist · 03/10/2019 20:16

Yes but whore and haw sound the same in lots of people's accents .

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 20:15

Hoarse/horse I mean

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 20:14

@SaraNade I pronounce hoarse and hoarse differently 😂

Hoarse - Whore-ss

Horse - haw-rse

Motherinlawsdung · 03/10/2019 20:14

Can we have a whip-round to get funds to allow MN to develop an upload facility for audio sounds, so we could demonstrate how pork can be different from stork and hoarse can be different from horse.

SaraNade · 03/10/2019 20:13

@Mumsnet This, needs to be sent straight to Mumsnet Classics!