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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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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/10/2019 18:00

”Interesting. Do you pronounce 'boot' and 'look' with the same elongated 'oo' sound (genuine question - my folks do)?”

Good question, @iklboo - I don’t! Blush. And fork and work are pronounced differently too. I’m beginning to think English might not be the most logical of languages! WinkGrin

OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg · 03/10/2019 17:59

They both end on "ork" how can they be pronounced differently?

While I'm in the 'sound the same' camp over pork and stork I give you...work.

MammaBear2019 · 03/10/2019 17:59

My mum and I were walking through a shopping mall one day and she said she wanted to go into a shop to look at shoes...

Me "which shop doctor want to go into?"
Mum "that German shop... Doucheman"

Pissing myself laughing I had to correct her..

"Its DEICHMANN... and dont ever say that in public again!!" Lol
Grin

StarlingsInSummer · 03/10/2019 17:58

Stork is pronounced like stawrk

Pork is pronounced like pohrk

“Stalk” is pronounced “stawrk”. “Stork” is pronounced to rhyme with “pork” 🤣🤣

CustardySergeant · 03/10/2019 17:57

Imonlymoominafterall I was confused by your post so Googled.

Oh. Blush

IamWaggingBrenda · 03/10/2019 17:57

And I love “for all intensive purposes”!

Amummyatlast · 03/10/2019 17:55

He also used to say "I was miffed" all the time. Meaning "I was confused/baffled/mystified".

Where I’m from, miffed means slightly annoyed/offended.

Stork and pork rhyme.

bruffin · 03/10/2019 17:54

Londoner here, pork and stork the same. They both end on "ork" how can they be pronounced differently?

Another one Dd used to say Marks Expensive for M&S

Nextphonewontbesamsung · 03/10/2019 17:54

I remember a thread on here when a hapless poster was pulled up repeatedly for racism for correctly describing someone or something as niggardly.

Chosennone · 03/10/2019 17:53

My daughter has always been full of these;
Trickle treating at Halloween
When someone drops glasses/plates she shouts 'slap the juggler' or once 'slap the joker'
She also thought lesbians were called legacies.

StarlingsInSummer · 03/10/2019 17:53

My five year old says he’s “only cheesing” when he’s teasing us, and thinks ninjas are “minjas”

vampirethriller · 03/10/2019 17:52

My sister only just realised it's not:
Depo (Deed poll)
Breaking an entry
Rest bite care

She's 31

Imonlymoominafterall · 03/10/2019 17:51

I never understood why there was a song called Knights in White Satin until embarrassingly recently.

OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg · 03/10/2019 17:50

"every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you" Even though I (now) know it's an incorrect lyric I can't unhear

Same here!

Thewheelsarefallingoff · 03/10/2019 17:49

My DS when he was probably 20 told me he couldn't "be asked" to do something. When corrected, he insisted it was a saying. He also insisted that baby shampoo promotes no more tears (rips) rather than no more tears (crying), even after I pointed out the teardrop symbol it was written in. He would not have it. Bloody infuriating.

wellhelloyou · 03/10/2019 17:48

And just remembered another one. Paul Young ""every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you". Even though I (now) know it's an incorrect lyric I can't unhear Hmm

FortheloveofJames · 03/10/2019 17:48

I thought the saying was ‘best thing since life’s bread’ until I was about that age BlushGrin

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:48

I do think, though, that as pork and stork both have ‘or’ in the middle, they are pronounced the same.

Interesting. Do you pronounce 'boot' and 'look' with the same elongated 'oo' sound (genuine question - my folks do)?

OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg · 03/10/2019 17:47

I was at secondary school before I realised it wasn't "idledown" (eiderdown) - I thought it was something you lay under when you were being idle.

And it was literally only last year that I learned "segue" was actually the word I thought must be spelled "segway". Blush

MyCat no apology necessary! (My DH said "why...?" and I just replied "Mumsnet" and he shrugged, said "should've guessed" and went back to his hobby playing on GarageBand.)

wellhelloyou · 03/10/2019 17:45

Never mind all that. Try listening to the song Mercy by Duffy and not hearing "I'm begging you for birdseed" Grin

Wombleish · 03/10/2019 17:45

@MyCatHatesEverybody Nope, I'm from the NE and pour and paw sound the same when I say them. Pork also rhymes with fork and stork.

CustardySergeant · 03/10/2019 17:45

Bluntness,

www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/pork

www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/stork

Do these differ from what you say?

BrownSauceOfCourse · 03/10/2019 17:44

My husband is a bit of a Star Wars fan, but he still says Dar Vader.

He also informed me yesterday that he had an 'egg and crest' sandwich for lunch.

@Yogobo My children also think that 'several' means seven - they refuse to accept it isn't a specific number so I've given up arguing with them.

@Bluntness where is your accent from? In my accent all of the things you have said all sound the same. I'm struggling to imagine how they could be different.

CandyLeBonBon · 03/10/2019 17:44

I've now just been saying pork and stork in a Scottish accent and all of a sudden bluntness makes sense!

NearlyGranny · 03/10/2019 17:43

I led a British Council trip to one of the (very) deep southern states of the US some years back and was introduced to and shown round by a lovely man called Dr Lark (I thought) and I thought what a charming, unusual name. When I clocked his office door sign, his name was plain Lock... I think the pork/stork thing might be similar? Stark vs pork?

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