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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

OP posts:
Decadoma · 03/10/2019 19:58

My ds thought it was a random applause! Not round of applause. We still do random claps if the occasion requires!

threesenoughthanks · 03/10/2019 19:57

My Dd was well into her teens before she discovered the Lord's prayer wasn't....Our Father who art in heaven Harold be thy name. I don't know if she actually thought God's name was Harold. She doesn't like it if we mention it she's so embarrassed thinking of all those times she must have said it in primary school.

happygoluckyhippo · 03/10/2019 19:57

@ShowOfHands it's the vowels that are different though, not just the rhoticity.

TrendyNorthLondonTeen · 03/10/2019 19:57

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

They really don't though...

Decadoma · 03/10/2019 19:56

Well i guess you could say that a bunged up nose is a bit constipated...

recededpronunciation · 03/10/2019 19:56

I recently found out that my kids thought for years that I was saying they could have a lion in the morning, rather than a lie in. Endless disappointment when promised feline never appeared.

InThisMultiverse · 03/10/2019 19:56

@Funkyslippers as a child I thought it was "life is butter dream". It made as much sense as other nursery rhymes

ShowOfHands · 03/10/2019 19:55

Pronunciation threads always end in the same argument. Some people have rhotic accents and some people non-rhotic accents. In a non-rhotic accent, you don't pronounce the r in pore or stork or war. That is why they can all rhyme.

Awe
Waugh
Store
Paw
Four
Door

All rhyme in my English accent.

BlueJava · 03/10/2019 19:54

My 17 yo DS was convinced the "cruthes" were actually "clutches". He said "Obviously they are cluthes because you have to hold them tightly when you've put your arm through the ring"!

MaryPopppins · 03/10/2019 19:54

@Bluntness100 @AryaStarkWolf

but pork does rhyme with stork... ?

Pork - Pour-k
Stork - Rhymes with War-k

They all sound the same.......

OkPedro · 03/10/2019 19:50

Law is well law and War is is W OR..R being pronounced Or not Aw
Irish accents in the republic

happygoluckyhippo · 03/10/2019 19:50

Many varieties contrast /o/ and /ɔ/ before /r/ so that hoarse and horse are pronounced differently.
Phonetics/phonology geek here! The above is from wikipedia re Scottish English. I reckon those vowels (/o/ and backwards /c/ in case they don't show up properly) make up the difference between "stork" and "pork" although might be realised slightly differently in different accents.

QueenWhatevraWanabi · 03/10/2019 19:50

DH - 'Jesus wet' instead of jesus wept. Always used during an argument which makes it even more infuriating and results in me yelling 'FFS JESUS IS NOT WET!!'

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 19:49

"Law and war don't fucking rhyme. There's a pissing W at the end of one and an r at the other."
They do rhyme. That would be an unwritten silent w at the end of war. HTH.

ViaSacra · 03/10/2019 19:48

I always thought ‘for all intents and purposes’ was ‘for all intensive purposes’

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 19:47

Actually, lots of people on MN write about the "tread" rather than the "thread", which is clearly a case of mispronunciation due to local accents!

NaviSprite · 03/10/2019 19:46

@Sohololopopo My DH used to pronounce Hermione as Her-me-own which still makes me chuckle because he had an aunty Hermione and got her name right, he just never made the connection :')

I'd read unshed tears as unsh'd if that makes sense? I never realised there was the separation un-shed... another favourite was a girl at work insisted Severus was pronounced Serverus

My little sister always read Dumbledore as Dum-bley-dore but that was cute so I gave her a pass :D

CustardOmlet · 03/10/2019 19:46

I have read a lot of undergraduate exam answers papers this week referring to smoking sensation, not cessation.

Betsybun · 03/10/2019 19:44

My 8 year old says a dream come through instead of a dream come true. I don't correct him because it's too cute ♥️

unmumsymumof2 · 03/10/2019 19:44

My mum 'struddles' ( struggles ) with certain phases too Wink

windandme · 03/10/2019 19:43

Law and war don't fucking rhyme. There's a pissing W at the end of one and an r at the other.

SpirallingThroughAnotherDay · 03/10/2019 19:43

@Motherinlawsdung They don't but they look like they should! a bit sneaky that Grin

StCharlotte · 03/10/2019 19:42

how can law and war rhyme?

How can they not? Confused

windandme · 03/10/2019 19:42

The worst is when people say ‘on tenderhooks’

What? No. I refuse to have yet another illusion shattered. I'm leaving Mumsnet if it's not tenderhooks.

Fifilafrog · 03/10/2019 19:42

My brother used to despise Bidden. As in he was quite often told something was forbidden. He really did used to wonder why Bidden got all the fun!