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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:
Thegracefuloctopus · 03/10/2019 17:28

My best friend thought "swings and roundabouts" was "swing some roundabouts" I have never laughed so much in my life

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:27

I wonder how I got to 45 thinking that the word pork rhymes with fork in every accent...

fridgegrazer · 03/10/2019 17:27

I also thought it was Dark Vadar - I think it is in France Grin - well Dark Vador anyway

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:27

@DadDadDad Republic of Ireland

Charley50 · 03/10/2019 17:27

I thought they were light savers into my 40s.
DS still argues that the kerb is actually called curve.

walkintheparc · 03/10/2019 17:26

Class A cherries

Haha that is amazing

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:26

*Arya - what accent do you have? I'm hearing Northern Ireland the way you describe it there...

RoLaren · 03/10/2019 17:25

My husband got to 45 before realising that Class A cherries were actually glace cherries. SMH.

MillicentMartha · 03/10/2019 17:25

Pore, poor, pour, war, war, oar, four, raw, roar, door, more, law, lore...
They all rhyme in my accent.

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:25

Mine is an Irish accent btw

Iputthescrewinthetuna · 03/10/2019 17:25

@iklboo my DD calls them crumpled eggs. We don't correct her (bad parents) and now even when DP and I are alone we call them crumpled!

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:24

Well that's true for me too, but Oar and Or sound the same the way I say them, while I sense that's not true for you...

No, Or for me sound more like saying the letter "R" whereas Oar is a longer sound, a bit like Owe-her without the 2 cyclables (If that makes any sense?!) haha

CustardySergeant · 03/10/2019 17:24

Pour rhymes with wore and War rhymes with Thor,
Pour makes an "Oar" sound and War makes an Or sound

Arya, all those words rhyme with each other in my accent. I can't even work out how they could sound different.

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:23

Oar and Or are the same in my (south eastern) accent.

Was trying to think where it might be different - I think the Geordie accent for example would say pour differently (like two syllables?) rather than how I would say it i.e. as paw but with an r at the end if that makes sense?

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:22

@AryaStarkWolf - Pour makes an "Oar" sound and War makes an Or sound

Well that's true for me too, but Oar and Or sound the same the way I say them, while I sense that's not true for you...

walkintheparc · 03/10/2019 17:22

I have a friend who calls it 'tuppleware', I've never bothered to correct her!

I don't get the pork/stork one either. I'm from the midlands with a very mild accent and fork/pork/stork/pour(k) are all the same to me!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/10/2019 17:21

Pore, wore, Thor and oar all rhyme when I say them.

fizzyfizz · 03/10/2019 17:21

After birthday candles have been blown out, DS (3) shouts joyfully "pip it away"!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/10/2019 17:20

Pork and stork rhyme perfectly the way I say them.

@whiteivy - I love ‘ombleflope’!

I remember being very baffled when I was little and heard my dad talking to my mum about being paid his celery for work. I couldn’t see how that was any use! Blush

BertieDrapper · 03/10/2019 17:20

@windandme no she's not, although she was an Army Brat so could've spent some time in the West Country I don't know about!
Lol

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:20

If you think PORK doesn't rhyme STORK, you've got another thing coming. Wink

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:19

Arya but pour and war rhyme, well they do in my accent anyway.

haha in mine

Pour rhymes with wore and War rhymes with Thor,
Pour makes an "Oar" sound and War makes an Or sound

Gruzinkerbell1 · 03/10/2019 17:19

Sitting here at my DDs swimming lesson whispering Pork and Stork to myself...

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:19

STORK = Rhymes with FORK

Yes, and FORK rhymes with PORK... Confused

puppyblues · 03/10/2019 17:18

My DH only realised its not 'a washed kettle never boils' at 32.