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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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NachoFries · 03/10/2019 17:42

When I was a kid I couldn’t Sylvester Stallone’s name properly. My siblings and I would pronounce it as “Silver Sister Loan” Confused

NotTonightJosepheen · 03/10/2019 17:37

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maggiecate · 03/10/2019 17:37

A colleague giving a presentation said an event had been a damp squid. Asked afterwards if they meant damp squib. Cue dawning realisation on his face as suddenly it all made sense - he’d always wondered apparently because “Well, squids are usually damp aren’t they.”

Burlea · 03/10/2019 17:37

My DD used to say 'chip chop' for the local chip shop.

Littletabbyocelot · 03/10/2019 17:37

I heard a lady sing baa baa black sheep to her grandson. Apparently the little boy lives down the drain.

And to the pp who ask, I only discovered on here that it isn't the jewels remain still gleaming

NachoFries · 03/10/2019 17:36

I actually thought Paddington Bear was a type of bear that lived in Lima, Peru Blush

And until recently I thought Rawalpindi is something I made up in my sleep Blush

DustyMaiden · 03/10/2019 17:36

If you say I’ve got a bunged up nose, when you do indeed have a bunged up nose, it sounds like bummed up.

bunintheoven88 · 03/10/2019 17:35

Until about two weeks ago I thought the saying was,

'Give up the goat'

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:35

@OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg I was trying to channel Cheryl Tweedy Cole InsertNameHere when I was thinking about it, apologies!

Moosiclover · 03/10/2019 17:34

My DD used to watch Mona the Vampire when she was little, but called it Mona the Bamfire

Bluntness100 · 03/10/2019 17:33

We are both Scottish, but no other Scot I know says pawrk, and I've lived in England on and off for 17 years and never heard an English person pronounce it like that either 😂

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:33

I'm kind of imagining pork being pronounced as poo-erk or something similar, I wonder if I'm anywhere close?

OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg · 03/10/2019 17:33

I think the Geordie accent for example would say pour differently (like two syllables?)

Nope, my DH is a Geordie and pork and stork sound the same (I've just asked him to say them both and he's now looking at me with suspicion).

Bluntness100 · 03/10/2019 17:32

Stork is pronounced like stawrk,

Pork is pronounced like pohrk,

No one says pawrk. 🤣

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:32

@bluntness may I ask what your accent is? I'm intrigued!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/10/2019 17:31

I am sitting here repeating or, Thor, pork, stork and war in my head in a variety of different accents, and I can ‘hear’ where @AryaStarkWolf is coming from, I think.

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

Vintagegoth · 03/10/2019 17:30

I remember my Dad talking about the "London Waiting" he was paid for his job. I thought it was extra money for having to wait in traffic jams.

Iputthescrewinthetuna · 03/10/2019 17:29

I am now whispering pork and stork on the bus! I don't get it!

Bluntness100 · 03/10/2019 17:29

You don't sound pork and stork the same way! 😱

Pork has an o sound that isn't present in stork.

Yogobo · 03/10/2019 17:29

I can't remember the exact numbers, but according to dp "few" and "several" meant a specific quantity. Like a few = five and several = seven or something.

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

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:29

I love the differences in accents.

Doireann1 · 03/10/2019 17:28

Chung gum. Chewing gum.

TheFairyCaravan · 03/10/2019 17:28

DS2's girlfriend thinks it's bricks and water not bricks and mortar. 😂

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:28

Ha, cross-post!

Knittedfairies · 03/10/2019 17:28

Another not getting the pork/stork thing...