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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:
notangelinajolie · 03/10/2019 17:18

My husband says pork like it rhymes with stork, it drives me nuts and I want to punch him when he says it

But @Bluntness100 - it does Confused

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:17

Arya in my accent pour rhymes with war.

Grin How about iklboo's example?

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:17

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

I wonder if pork was a typo for poke?

hgdg2018 · 03/10/2019 17:17

My step-daughter once said she had "peas and noodles" in her feet from sitting down for too long when I was doing her hair once...

It will now be forever known as peas and noodles in our house!

NuttyNutty · 03/10/2019 17:17

One colleague of mine used to say "vegebetles" instead of vegetables. The job was a waitress in a restaurant so it was not a word she could escape...

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:16

Argh. Posted twice. Sodding app.

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:16

YY

PORK = POURK
STORK = Rhymes with FORK

MillicentMartha · 03/10/2019 17:16

Arya in my accent pour rhymes with war. Shock

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:16

YY

PORK = POURK
STORK = Rhymes with FORK

pinkprosseco · 03/10/2019 17:15

My oldest, supported Tottenham Hot Sperms for a while and liked to speak to his Auntie Amphibian (Vivian)

MillicentMartha · 03/10/2019 17:15

But pork does rhyme with stork? Confused

I use to say chimley as well as a child in Bristol. It must be the Bristol ‘L’ like saying ideal instead of idea.

notangelinajolie · 03/10/2019 17:14

My DH insists mashed potatoes are smashed potatoes.

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:14

but pork does rhyme with stork... ?

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

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:14

Doesn't pork rhyme with stork then?!

I was in my 30s when I found out my grumpy next door neighbours were in fact called Mr and Mrs Moss, not Moth.

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:13

Anyone else want to ask Bluntness this question... ? Grin

stuffedpeppers · 03/10/2019 17:13

one man went to mow, went to mow a meadow

I looked that one up in an atlas many times because I wanted to go there - 21 before I realised that it was not Mowameadow

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/10/2019 17:13

But pork does rhyme with stork, doesn’t it? Confused How else would you pronounce it? @Bluntness100

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:12

@Bluntness100 - but pork does rhyme with stork... ?

polkadotpixie · 03/10/2019 17:12

@Bluntness100 Pork does rhyme with Stork doesn't it? Have I been saying it wrong for 35 years?! 🙈

bruffin · 03/10/2019 17:11

My GP ran a green grocers and florist when i was little. She used to say that the "Old Sailors were coming today" i used lookout for old men in blue bell bottom uniform , but they never turned up. It was back in the 60s.
Asked my mum why the Old Sailors never turned up, she laughed and explained it was "Wholesalers" doing a delivery.

butteryellow · 03/10/2019 17:11

My husband says pork like it rhymes with stork, it drives me nuts and I want to punch him when he says it.

Gonna need some help here - can you describe more how they might be said differently?

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:11

My DP - early thirties calls Hermione HARMARNY and Hedwig HEDGEWIG and my nephew calls Voldemort Voldermer and Pronounces Quick as Thick! Still! (We are VERY Harry Potter)

and my DD used to cal Harry Potter Harry the Potter

Marshmallow91 · 03/10/2019 17:10

I used to think the company "artimage shanks" was "artimage sharks" when I was about 6...i never put my hands near the plughole in case I got bit Grin

OMGshefoundmeout · 03/10/2019 17:09

My DS used to call Marks and Spencers ‘Marks and Spensive’ because I used to complain about the prices in there. That one has stuck.

tmh88 · 03/10/2019 17:08

I use to say clompicated and I still really struggle now to say complicated and not clompicated Blush

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