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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:
Casander · 03/10/2019 17:08

Not a pronunciation so not quite the same but I was an adult when I realised a Haggis wasn't actually an animal thanks dad

Bluntness100 · 03/10/2019 17:07

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

butteryellow · 03/10/2019 17:07

Continuing the Star Wars theme, I have to keep a completely straight face as DS calls the little green guy Master Yodeller - because if I laugh, he'll stop saying it.

Mrbay · 03/10/2019 17:06

I thought eton mess was Elton's Mess for years - yes as in Elton John, seems perfectly logical that would have the time to knock up a new dessert!

windandme · 03/10/2019 17:05

@BertieDrapper is she from the West Country? All my family say it and it was only when I got to 40 I realised it was not 'chimley'. BlushBlushBlush

Chouetted · 03/10/2019 17:03

sticky foot for certificate...

AiryFairy1 · 03/10/2019 17:03

We also have “trickle treating” here, and their school has a lot of festibals, not such young kids here - I think it’s cute Grin

Sohololopopo · 03/10/2019 17:03

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)

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:02

DS used to tell us he saw a statube of Dark Vader and his Life Saver.

He tried eating lompster but preferred scrumpled egg.

CustardCreamLover · 03/10/2019 17:02

I used to think row row row your boat ended with life's a butter dream so combined with the PP upthread we got the entire song wrong!

SilverChime · 03/10/2019 17:02

Round here the phrase “bummed up” means “constipated” 😂

Gooseygoosey12345 · 03/10/2019 16:59

Not really the same but DS(2) calls his Pooh Bear (Winnie the Pooh) "butt change bear" 😂😂 he'll be known by that forever

IdblowJonSnow · 03/10/2019 16:59

I thought the song 'dirty old town (toon)' was dirty old tarn. Consequently unable to pass a lake without singing it...Blush

SistersOfPercy · 03/10/2019 16:58

so how many of you thought the lyrics to 3 Lions were...

Three Lions on a shirt
Jewels remain still gleaming

Because I'll bet a good portion of you sing that as well.

Windydaysuponus · 03/10/2019 16:56

Waldrobe to store clothes.
Ds 24...
Floordrobe used by teen ds's...

DoctorAllcome · 03/10/2019 16:56

My parents would always call a toll gate a troll gate and we’d pull up and they’d say “time to pay the troll better hope it’s not hungry or it’ll want one of you kids to eat”

It took years before we realized it was a joke and toll roads were not troll roads where you paid trolls in troll booths instead of them jumping out from under bridges and causing traffic jams.

BertieDrapper · 03/10/2019 16:55

My mum, inher 60s says

Chimleys for chimneys

Calls clackets lane , cackets lane and adds an "ING" into the name of local road by her....

Each one we have corrected her but to no avail.... we just laugh about it as she will never change.

But the most annoying is the way she says "Ariel" for the little mermaid.... she says "A-re-el and I can't bear it!

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 16:54

We are bad parents and our language is not always that polite. Our child was convinced that on our lazy days, we "couldn't be asked" to do stuff!

TheOrigBrave · 03/10/2019 16:47

I gave my head a wobble when I realised that the things in the sea were "Sea Defences" not "Seedy Fences". I was about 40 when the penny dropped.

DCIRozHuntley · 03/10/2019 16:46

We've had a few in our family.

The early bird gets the world.
Trickle treat.
Dressing down (for dressing gown).

There was someone on here who thought the game Pass the Parcel was called Parcel Parcel. Don't have that problem up north with the short A!

CatsOnCatnip · 03/10/2019 16:45

Toad Path instead of towpath.

OddBoots · 03/10/2019 16:45

I was about that age when I realised that what I thought were fork pies were in fact pork pies.

DD thought until she was about 8 that I would weave her hair into 'flats'.

MadisonAvenue · 03/10/2019 16:44

Oh, and he also thought that the song Live and Let Die was Little Men Die.

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 16:44

@whiteivy Grin

Spied · 03/10/2019 16:44

DD always wears her Piniform to school Grin