I am the poster who wrote rest-bite AMA

[MummaMummaJumma]

Thank you to the lovely poster who started a thread attempting to further embarrass me. Sadly, it was deleted. So here I am.. AMA!

I think "rest-bite" is lovely.

A woman on my local Facebook group asked about "trickle treating" at Halloween. There was good natured teasing but I think everyone quite liked it (it's mostly a friendly group as long as noone's dog shits anywhere) and so she made a few more similar ones after that which I wish I could remember now..... It wasn't totally clear whether she was doing it deliberately or not, but certainly nobody was a cunt about it....

I also remember meeting a woman who talked a lot about rumours "spreading like wild flower". I only had one (drunken) conversation with her but, believing herself to be the subject of gossip, she used the phrase an unusual number of times. I liked it, slightly different resonance from wild-fire, less rapid destruction, more things gradually yet tenacious seeding and replicating themselves....

You rock on OP! Language should be explored and enjoyed, and adapted as we see fit - no one person or group of people own it. It's a form of social control in my opinion, and really quite conservative and nasty .....

They're from the ancient Greek, so the syllables are elongated. Often the stress in on the 2nd syllable.

So,

hy - PER - bol - ee

an - TIP - o - dees

I am so so so loving 'Wrestler's Night' and 'Power of Eternity' Thanks again for the thread, @MummaMummaJumma.

Pretty much everyone.

I actually just saw that comment on the original thread, and was thinking how gracefully you took the correction. I’ve also seen loads of people make that specific spelling mistake.

Within the context of social care there seems to be a move away from referring to respite; in our area at least we now talk about 'short breaks' - I wonder if that change was to save embarrassment for all the professionals who were spelling it incorrectly?!

I love 'spreading like wild flower' and 'wrestler's night'. They are both so apt!

@Justme10 @Dagnabit what!!! How is hyperbole pronounced??
I’ve been saying hyper-bowl my whole life!!

The funniest thing about that - she is British!

@Dachshund40 hy - PER - bol - ee as another poster has said, I was still getting it wrong

We have been saying hyperbowl because that makes more sense 😂

How do you say the letter "H" ?

😂😂 I saw this thread the other day. I’ve always send ‘haitch’ but of course now I say it ‘aitch’- just to be posh 💁🏼‍♀️

You could put an apology poster on the lamb post outside your house?

Am I the only one sitting here muttering "respite, rest bite" over and over and not being able to hear much of a difference? I have an Irish accent so my 't' sound is quite soft, perhaps in rp there might be more of a difference.

LOL God love her.

When my son was learning about the USA in junior school he wrote a fair bit about "Darak O'Darma" which makes him sound like some kind of Irish dalek.

Op, where I live P is pronounced B so
for eg Pepsi is Bebsi.

I think you should tell people you’re bilingual.

Tesco staff canteens used to be called ‘The Rest-bite’ - signs on the wall and everything.

I still say it that way in my head. So many words I read before hearing them and they're still stuck in my mind with phonetic pronunciations. I mispronounce so many words.

Or mangie tawt

We should be able to turn these into some kind of limerick lol

When I was younger I read a whole book calling a character Percy-Phone thinking what an ugly mane lol 😝

@MummaMummaJumma - maybe you should rename yourself
Lady Persephone mondeground of Chester Draws?!

Are your children allowed to say the word toilet?

Oh that reminds me that I regularly hear people say 'toing and throwing' instead of 'toing and froing', when they are describing someone going back and forth about something

Oh lordy, dont start the respite vs short breaks argument. Thats a whole lot of different paperwork and boxes to tick on the system and if its the wrong thing you've asked for you you'll be for it!!

Someone might have mentioned this but also 'mind field' instead of mine field.

No, they have call it the lavatory 💩

Haha.. love that name!

My dad with old-timers disease goes for rest bite care.