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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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HB2019 · 10/10/2019 16:30

I've just seen "power annoyed" where I think the person meant paranoid Grin

janj2301 · 10/10/2019 09:35

I work on checkout and still say tuppence and thrupence and pence (not peas). The oldies love it and the youngsters ask what i mean!!!

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 10/10/2019 08:46

Oops, 'scuse me, I've taken a wrong turn, I was looking for Pedants' Corner...

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 10/10/2019 08:43

Maybe your Mexican colleague was Anglicizing his pronunciation. There's definitely a soft 'e' at the end, (guacamol-eh rather than guacamo-ay)

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 10/10/2019 07:45

Just listening to my youngest chitter away whilst eating his breakfast. I hear him say
'Our father in heaven I will be your name.'
I ask him what he was saying and he replied 'it's the Lord's Prayer from assembly'
Then we had a discussion about it because he thinks it means his dad is in heaven (even though he's just waved him off to work at the door!)

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sashh · 10/10/2019 06:38

refuses to pronounce the -ee at the end of guacamole

I shared an office with a Mexican guy foe about 3 years, he used to bring in Guacamole, so I pronounce it as a Spanish speaker, people look confused and think I'm saying whack a mole.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 10/10/2019 05:58

And now the bold's gone bonkers - MNHQ, this is your doing!

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 10/10/2019 05:56

trained myself out of it because* it made me feel oddly self-conscious! - bleedin' autocorrect!

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 10/10/2019 05:54

Feb-rue-ry. Can't say it any other way, it feels too weird.

I used to say Wed-nz-Dee but I've trained myself out if it made me feel oddly self-conscious!

merryhouse · 09/10/2019 21:57

Feb'ry.

I've remembered one! Son when little told me he had walked in a "bitdeep".

Turns out he meant a puddle. I had obviously spent rather a lot of time warning him off the larger ones by saying "ooh, that's a bit deep"...

Younger son called his brother "Fiddofers" for a few months.

I read the word as mizle-d too. I knew exactly what it meant. I also knew there was a word mis-led, and knew exactly what it meant. The moment when those two brain cells collided was an explosion....

Aw-ry was more prosaic.

NotTonightJosepheen · 09/10/2019 21:14

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1066vegan · 09/10/2019 21:12

I've always said Feb-rue-erry and assumed that everyone did. If anything I overpronounce the r to try and help children to spell it correctly (primary school teacher).

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 09/10/2019 20:16

@NotTonightJosepheen I did the same with my older two. They looked confused and said Febuary

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Grambler · 09/10/2019 19:58

DH says Feb-rue-ary but then he also says rest-ta-raun not rest'rant for restaurant.

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 09/10/2019 19:44

Going back to my mums pronunciation of February can I get a straw poll of the who says it which way...
Mum said Feb-rue-ary
I say feb-u-ary

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RiftGibbon · 09/10/2019 08:16

If anyone wants to know how to pronounce things, you can look at the Cambridge English dictionary online and listen to pronunciation examples.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 09/10/2019 06:56

I think it is more likely that the correct pronunciation of the word was changed, to fit with the rhyme scheme, than that fore-head is incorrect.

Unlikely. Forrid is just a contraction of forehead, like bosun for boatswain and fo'cs'le for forecastle on a ship.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/10/2019 16:28

@BitOfFun - normally I’d pronounce forehead as it’s spelled, but forrid when I am saying that rhyme!

I think it is more likely that the correct pronunciation of the word was changed, to fit with the rhyme scheme, than that fore-head is incorrect.

Ilnome · 08/10/2019 15:45

I spent about a good ten years thinking if you had one black parent and one white parent you were mixed rice (obviously mixed race missheard)

BitOfFun · 08/10/2019 02:45

@GooseFeather, surely 'forehead' is pronounced 'forrid' (roughly)? Otherwise the old nursery rhyme about the little girl who had a little curl 'right in the middle of her forehead' wouldn't work?

Insomniacscientist · 08/10/2019 02:33

Peter Kay’s misheard lyrics sketch on you tube is rather amusing and well worth a watch. Some of the content is not pg though

Like a pp my dd also thought it was a light saver

BitOfFun · 08/10/2019 02:31

I listen to a lot of history books on Audible. I spent a lot of time recently wondering why Henry VIII was so vehemently opposed to pot pourri...

yellowallpaper · 08/10/2019 02:22

Glue ear has a lot to answer for!

BillHadersNewWife · 08/10/2019 01:43

User it's Patisserie Valerie anyway isn't it? Not Valerie Patisserie!

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