Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Mumsnet classics

Relive the funniest, most unforgettable threads. For a daily dose of Mumsnet’s best bits, sign up for Mumsnet's daily newsletter.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Original poster

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

OP posts:
MagHenTa · 03/10/2019 20:13

When I was in secondary school my RE teacher gave a lesson discussing Euthanasia... I had never heard of this before, and thought she was saying Youth In Asia. I spent the whole lesson totally puzzled over why all young people on an entire continent didn't want to live.

RueCambon · 03/10/2019 20:13

The queen may say law and war as though they rhyme but they only rhyme in the accent that she has.

Solitaryradiator · 03/10/2019 20:12

@windandme it’s tenterhooks not tenderhooks....

lazylinguist · 03/10/2019 20:11

the difference between pork and stork is the same as the difference between hoarse and horse.

Grin Yeah that really doesn't help! They sound the same too for me.

Rainonmyguitar · 03/10/2019 20:11

Our Father who art in heaven Harold be thy name

🤣😂🤣

MaryPopppins · 03/10/2019 20:10

*"Pork, stork, war, oar, pour, core, lore, law, for, four , your...all rhyme"

They really don't though...*

@TrendyNorthLondonTeen

They really do. (London/Surrey) and would if the queen was saying them too. Surely that says something. Wink

RueCambon · 03/10/2019 20:10

Well poor and pour are different (slightly) in my accent too but then they are different vowels too.
Still doesnt explain stork and pork

SaraNade · 03/10/2019 20:09

But hoarse and horse are pronounced exactly the same way, too!

Like course and coarse.

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 20:09

I'm loving the fact that out of all the many controversial posts I have read from Bluntness over the years, pork-storkgate is probably the most controversial of them all. This place is batshit Grin

ShowOfHands · 03/10/2019 20:08

I'm awaiting the inevitable "but hoarse and horse rhyme" posts...

DressingGown · 03/10/2019 20:08

Dd (6) still thinks lookaftering is one word. We never corrected her. (Is Granny lookaftering me later?)

derxa · 03/10/2019 20:07

/or/ and /ur/ are contrasted so that shore and sure are pronounced differently, as are pour and poor.

calmpuppycrazykids · 03/10/2019 20:06

My Dd is only 4 but I love it when she’s been spinning around and then says mum I’m really busy she means dizzy

Jinxed2 · 03/10/2019 20:06

My daughter just asked me for a Chanel jumper for her birthday....she meant chenille 🤦🏼‍♀️

Mitzicoco · 03/10/2019 20:06

I only realised recently that Han Solo was Han Solo. I thought he was Hands SoloHmm

ShowOfHands · 03/10/2019 20:05

I know hippo but I didn't want to complicate things! Lots of people can't fathom how the sounds can rhyme when a word contains a vocalised r. Take away rhoticity and it's a step in the right direction to understanding the possible differences and how rhoticity shapes a sound in the first place.

imaflutteringkite · 03/10/2019 20:05

I've only just realised that pavement is pronounced how it looks. I've always said paythment. No one has ever corrected me and I'm not normally stupid. I'm 36!

DressingGown · 03/10/2019 20:05

I thought that there were many Wombles and that they were from Wimbledon, having no idea as a child that Wimbledon Common was a place name. (The wombles of Wimbledon, common are we).

Motherinlawsdung · 03/10/2019 20:05

@happygoluckyhippo explains it perfectly. In some accents (e.g. some Scottish and Irish ones) the difference between pork and stork is the same as the difference between hoarse and horse. A closed o and an open o.
Law and lore are another matter. The vowels sound the same in both words but lore has an rrrr sound at the end and law doesn’t. Even in phrases like law and order! In SE England that’s lorand orda. In Scotland it’s law (space) and orderrrr.

lazylinguist · 03/10/2019 20:04

Argh! They sound the same! No they don't! Yes they do- how can they not? Seriously people - they sound different in DIFFERENT ACCENTS!

LellyMcKelly · 03/10/2019 20:02

When it’s on the radio, my DS has always sung, “Hot dog, jumping frog, I love turkey”,

lazylinguist · 03/10/2019 20:02

Wow - another MN thread where there are loads of people from the British Isles who are totally incapable of even imagining that things sound different in each other's accents (in spite of having no doubt heard those accents loads of times).

I'm from SE England. In my accent, oar, aw, or, ore all sound totally identical. In some or possibly most Scottish, Irish and Northern Irish accents they sound different. Not sure how people don't notice these things tbh!

e.g. Law and war end in the same sound in my accent, because in non-rhotic Englush, you don't actually make a 'r' sound at the end of words like war, car, fur etc.

HippyChickMama · 03/10/2019 20:02

Ds thought mushy peas were called slimy beans until he was about 6, no idea whether he misheard, got mixed up or just thought it was a good description.

Bigearringsbigsmile · 03/10/2019 20:01

Can someone do a little audio recording please because I can't get my head around this! I'm not disbelieving , i just cant make those sounds do anything other than rhyme!

RueCambon · 03/10/2019 20:00

Law and war may rhyme in an accent but they dont actually rhyme!! I cant work out if @Jaichangecentfoisdenom is joking!

"Silent w at the enf of war" 🤣

Swipe left for the next trending thread