To wish my mum wouldn't randomly make up words for things?

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My mun is completely incapable of using the proper word for certain things - instead she uses her own made-up version (which is totally unrelated to the proper word). So, pacifiers become "dodies", bed becomes "beebose deluxe" and so forth. AIBU to find this totally odd (and a little embarrassing when she does it in public!)? I know it's harmless (and pretty minor in the grand scheme of things) but OMG it drives me batshit. I'm also a bit concerned that DS will start to pick up on it when he's a bt older and use the wrong words without realising. Does anyone else's mother display this particular trait?

[hblush] I didn't know it was made up - I am turning into my mother. Nooooooo....

Tiggly :) [claims as own]

Like tiggly BTW...

like windscreeprs & bungley!

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We use mingy in Scotland for someone with long pockets and short hands (as my Dad always says). Is your MIL Scottish?

We also called a dummy a "diddy" but that is from German MIL.

dody/dodies is fairly well-iused as a term for dummies tho isnb't it? i've heard quite a few people refer to them as that

batshit isn't made up either. well, i guess it was somewhen, but again it's a word i have heard fairly frequently.

beebose deluxe is bloody weird tho!
tell us some more!

samjones i used to work for a family who had lived in Africa for a while and they always called medicine "moochy" which must be a variation on it!
I still catch myself doing it soemtimes now

I've heard beebose, or bobo's, but to add 'deluxe' on the end is bloody odd I agree what is the economy version, a nap in an armchair?

I know more people that called them dodies than dummies so I guess she didn't make that one up

I called them dummies fwiw

lol @ the economy sleep!

Lol at "economy version" of sleep! Perhaps it's like the M&S ads - "This isn't just beebose, this is beebose deluxe..."

Dodie = northern word non?

And I used to go to bobies when I was little

Sounds so bloody naff when you said it in that sultry M&S voice, although I just end up sounding like a bloke with laryngitis

I love beebose deluxe! i may adopt it. We had lots of strange ones grwoing up - the weirdest one I remember is Magnetia of Power for remote control - or Magnetia for short

What do you call your remote control thread

lol at 'Magnetia of Power'

Have mad foreign Mother so very used to granny saying nutty things! I just wished I understood her! You'd think I would after 47 yrs but she just keeps changing words for things. Quirel is of course a squirrel, sos are socks. shits are sheets. She gets cross when I correct her. 'Down to ground' instead of 'Down to earth'
What really get up my nose is the fact she tries to teach Ds Spanish but she's been away from there so long she gets that wrong too!!!

My MIL has a wealth if these words -some are too risque to be repeated .She is oblivious of course, while dh and I are giggling like a couple of kids,
When she means she has had a day 'pottering' she calls it 'scrummiging around'.

And she insists on calling pizza 'pitt-sa'. It's hard to keep up with her conversation at times

When we go to bed we go and "join the Snuggley Bugs"

we have our "yatnik" which is dinner

DS2 goes in the "raining room" - shower

I am sure if I thought about it there are many more but I don't tend to think about the way I say things - you know I will be watching everything I say now!

Could be worse, both DH and MIL speak ina language of their own

"where's the thing?"
"oh it's by the thing"
"oh yes, so it is"

My expression -

They seem to understand each other

YABU, I love made up words, especially 'beebose deluxe' for bed! Might start using that myself.

YABU. Normal in our family. Well DD1 23 and DD2 20 often make up words certainly make up words for things all the time and they are intelligent young people. They do however use the proper words as well.

My little sister made up loads of words when she was little. She's grown out of them, but now everyone else uses them all the time. Our word for dummy was doo-da but she changed it to da-doo so that's what it is now. Here are some others:

Naked = Maked (pronounced the same way except for the M) She could not be convinced for years that she had it wrong.
Yoghurt = Am (probably comes from the "am am am" sound adults tend to make when feeding a baby squishy food)
Remote control = flickaroo
All gone = Aw gub (used constantly by my DH especially when he's eaten the last cake and wants to hold off my wrath with cuteness)
I haven't done anything, honest, despite the fact that both I and the wall are covered in lipstick = Nothing!! (shouted)Ok, not technically a new word, but an elegant way to express a difficult concept

We say bumffled for the above mentioned bungled, but bummfled is a scottish word.

My family say 'fleejabit' meaning someone who can't sit still. Am not sure if that is made up by them or not! The other one is 'hallyracket' but I think that must be a scottish thing too although haven't heard anyone else saying it? Meaning - loud/boisterous, ie 'her child is hallyracket'.

My sister used to call boiled eggs 'bald eegs' (misheard my gran) and that has stuck.

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