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

[FelicityBeedle]

Introducing the fabulous new piece of furniture, the shezlon!

@Lonelycrab

Ham bag 😂😂

In nz on holiday once I bought Dm a “ham bag” as in a bag for a ham. Apparently you wet the bag, pop your ham leg in it and keep it in the fridge to keep it moist.

Bloody love a ham bag.

@Chersfrozenface, the Welsh for policeman is heddgeidwad but plismon is also used. My Nain called a woman police officer a plismones.

When I was a kid, I liked reading the Pets columns in the papers.
Two adverts stuck in my memory. One offered a “friendly red settee” and the other, a “Yorkshire Terror”.

@Cattenberg

When I was a kid, I liked reading the Pets columns in the papers. Two adverts stuck in my memory. One offered a “friendly red settee” and the other, a “Yorkshire Terror”.

😂

Antique rocking horses are my ''Thing'', and the Ebay /Farcebook dealers write such nonsense sometimes:

''She is a sort after horse with reigns and saddle in tact''.

{She is a sought after horse with reins and saddle intact}

I've seen a neckless for sale

@Chersfrozenface

Ebay. Colours in particular. Bordo is a very popular hue, as are karky and karki.

Car Key. That is what I thought Khaki was as a kid..I imagined it to be silver.

@Tonty

This is all funny but seriously, what is going wrong? are people just not reading anymore so the only time they come in contact with the word it is verbally? after all it's their language, English. It's not even their second language.

I think that is the reason for mispronounced English words; they have heard them but have not read them. With "foreign" words, like the champagne ones, I think it is the opposite. They have seen or read them, but not heard them pronounced.

My friend asked me what camoomba was. Camembert

These are great

@senua

I did a quick google to see if there was a reason for 'shezlon'. I didn't find one but did find a disturbing number of 'chaise lounge'.

The seller might be foreign. In some European countries a chaise longue is genuinely called shezlon. In Bulgaria it's шезлонг or in Hungary it's sezlon. Obviously it came from the original French word possibly via Germany in the mid-nineteenth century and got adapted into the local language over the years.

It's not that different from many English words that originate in Latin or Greek, just less ancient. I guess in the UK where it didn't change it does sound rather silly.

Thanks for this thread OP, made me smile!

@Toottoot20202

I’ll just leave this here

Laura Ashley?

Mine isn't a household item but you might be interested in one or two of these bargain priced thinbuls.

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

Yep, was just about to say the same! The name Moet is Dutch, not French!

Binoculars but pronounced "By no coolers".

It was a family friend who called them that but I always pronounce it that way now!

Car Key. That is what I thought Khaki was as a kid..I imagined it to be silver.

Khakis with loads of pockets were all the range when I was a tween - I asked my mum if a pair could be my Christmas present, and she was terribly confused as to why I wanted a set of keys for the car :o

I love when some bloke is ranting about some woman in the public eye online and he accuses her of being a pre-Madonna. Always love that one.

DD age 2-3 used to put herself on a pile of clothes and announce 'I'm a clo' so I would pretend to fold her up and put her in the drawer. (Not draw). Hours of fun when you're trying to get the laundry put away.

I would imagine incontinence is a bit of an inconvenience

Apparently the fizzer still gets nice and cold 😂

@SunshineCake

All very amusing but so depressing at the level of education, home support and lack of desire to learn to spell correctly.

🙄 Or maybe it’s people who don’t speak English as a first language or maybe it’s people who have learning difficulties. I think people who are scathing about other people’s English come across as unpleasant and dim. Surely it’s not that hard to understand that there are plenty of good reasons why someone might not be good at English.

😆

Some of these must surely be auto correct errors tho! Not that that's an excuse, but no one thinks it's a fizzer, surely!

Some of these are foreign words as well. It is all a bit depressing tho

Er...the laughing emoji was meant to reply to the ' mange tout ' comment. New to mumsnet!