I know we all love a Chester drawers, but I have one better

[FelicityBeedle]

Introducing the fabulous new piece of furniture, the shezlon!

@catsatonmymat

I nearly bought an item entitled Shabby Sheikh but decided against - I had nowhere to put him and it might just have caused problrms.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Chooka enba= Prints Phillip???? Confused

oh my god. It is quite terrifying that we have lost so much in the ability to determine what a word is, and how to spell it. I mean, you can ask Siri or Google to spell it if you can say it. IF. I guess that's the problem.

(anyone else now singing to their microwave - 'rows the boat ashore')

Ohhhhh. Duke of Edinburgh!!! Good grief!!!!

Portfolios that taste good!!!

If Shezlon & Michael Wave got married what would they call their offspring?

Someone in my local Facebook group was complaining about the neighbours in her 'Colder Sack'.

Took me a while to work out she meant cul-de-sac 😂😂

I once heard someone order a bottle of Voovay Clickwot which did make me smile!... but to be fair it's a bit of a tough one if you haven't heard it before

Also Mow-it and Chandon but that’s quite a common mispronunciation in the U.K.

I think Voovay Clickwot is brilliant and I’m going to stick with that from now on (not that there’s much Voovay Clickwot in my life).

I am usually aware enough of my shortcomings to check spellings but guilty of mispronouncing words words for years until I suddenly say it in front of someone and get laughed at. My most recent was talking about a tulle skirt and pronouncing it to rhyme with “dull”, I had never really thought about how it was supposed to be pronounced and my DM is still laughing at me weeks later

I would never have guessed the chooka enba one

@Ralphiemia

A friend of mine asked the lady in the antique shop “how much is the mange tout”, she didn’t bat an eyelid told her the price and my friend was very happy with her new chaise longe.

Hehe! Reminds me of someone saying mange tout as "man get out"...

BRILLIANT!

Gonna go read the 6 pages of posts now!

Was he from Glasgow?

@FelicityBeedle

Introducing the fabulous new piece of furniture, the shezlon!

BRILLIANT!

Gonna go read the 6 pages of posts now!

@YouokHun

I once heard someone order a bottle of Voovay Clickwot which did make me smile!... but to be fair it's a bit of a tough one if you haven't heard it before

Also Mow-it and Chandon but that’s quite a common mispronunciation in the U.K.

I think Voovay Clickwot is brilliant and I’m going to stick with that from now on (not that there’s much Voovay Clickwot in my life).

I am usually aware enough of my shortcomings to check spellings but guilty of mispronouncing words words for years until I suddenly say it in front of someone and get laughed at. My most recent was talking about a tulle skirt and pronouncing it to rhyme with “dull”, I had never really thought about how it was supposed to be pronounced and my DM is still laughing at me weeks later

Moët is pronounced with a hard "t". Common misconception that it isn't.

Duke of Edinburgh.

For a wonderful lexicon from Down Under, thumb through a copy of "Let Stalk Strine" by the well-known pseudonym Afferbeck Lauder (which I confess I didn't manage to interpret correctly for ages). Here you'll discover that an "egg nishner" is an Australian device for cooling the room during a heatwave, "egg jelly" is a colloquialism meaning "in reality", and "airman" is the meat component of an airman pickle sandwich. Unfortunately I lost my copy years ago, but I see it's still available on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Let-stalk-Strine-lexicon-modern/dp/0725400811?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

A friend of mine asked the lady in the antique shop “how much is the mange tout”, she didn’t bat an eyelid told her the price and my friend was very happy with her new chaise longe.

Seen on FB today, a friend's mother calling mange tout 'Man Get Out', which is kind of genius.

My husband calls ours the "chez lounge", probably because it's in the lounge, although why "chez" I have no clue 🤦‍♀️. I think mispronounciations are a part of a language evolving though. For instance "cod" (type of fish) is "bacalao" in Spanish, while it's "Kabeljau" in German, i.e. (some) people used to switch over the middle consonants and it stuck.

Stunning

We call carte noire 'carty norry' as an in joke.

Sometimes I forget and call it carty norry in public

These things genuinely make me wonder if half the population have hearing issues

@Spied

My mother talks incessantly about her new wall drobes

Omg. Someone has actually gone through life gib thinking that is what they are?

I can across one woman in America who called clothes 'close'

I see your Michael Wave and raise you a Settie and Poof Set

‘Micheal’ Wave isn’t even spelled correctly!