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?

Beebose deluxe?

I bet she remebers Bebop Deluxe and that is where she gets it from

I make words up. I haven't got time to try and remember the right one.

Our remote is called Nigel............no idea how that happened, just that we have 4 remotes, one for the tv,sky box, dvd and video. DH wanted the remote to change the channel years ago and DD1 passed him the wrong one and he was saying"No. not that one....the other one..No...the skinny grey one....Nigel!"

Bok-bok - Bottles
Dody - Dummy
Bobies - Bed
Bub-bub - Sandwich
Pajim-jims - Pajama's

Didn't realize I spoke Twattish so fluently as a second language!

Oh and the remote is Buttons.

Some stupid phrases that I use with my 4yo Goddaughter, the ones she's used ever since she could talk

Idiot box = TV
Sheep = bedtime, as in "Am off to sheep"
Dave = What we call anything that you can't remember the name / location of, e.g. "Go past the Dave, 2nd Dave and it's on your Dave hand side". Very funny for me but, invariably, annoying for onlookers
Mubbums = Delicious foodstuffs
Bangone = Cleaning sparays - one she made up as a toddler, following the Barry Scott "Bang and the dirt is gone" epics
Mersons = Morrison's supermarket

Many others too!

Dodie is a brand of dummies & baby foods available in france

we say jimmerjammers for pyjamas (but that comes from the nick Jr bedtime song).
buppy bread - bread and butter.

My DP says to DD's "time to go sleeps" it drives me bonkers!!! Why can't he say go to sleep!

I noticed the other day that MIL says it too. They also say beebose but that doesn't bother me as much as sleeps! I think it's because beebose is a made up word and sleeps is just a word pronounced incorrectly!

I know IABU! :)

My niece calls a dummy a deedle? This also drives me bonkers as my niece and nephew have never taken a dummy so this is from my sisters inlaws but my DD's both take dummies so niece will say do you want your deedle! Arghhhhh!!!

Again IABU!

No - buppy bread can't be bread & butter - buppy is (according to my mother) champagne/sparkling wine...

Buppy Bread came from my Nan, God only knows where she got it from.

Yes, it does rather make you wonder where these expressions come from, doesn't it...

yabu

Dodies is normal here (North West)

Bobies - bedtime
BokBok - baby bottle

Will think of loads more as my Gran has loads that we all use.

Oh gosh dh and I do this all the time!
wurblesnatch [wurb] means feeling a bit ill
groffleburgers is an exclamation of irritation
Roland is bed [dont ask]
dogshelf is floor
the id is the television and of course our triumph[which can now be Googled]is Scottish Crooglie [mashed potato and swede]
Our family love it and think its fun to use 'our' words for things.

Isn't pacifier American for dummy?

A cat is a schmunk or a schmunkin in our house.

Schmunkins are fusby (squashy-furred).

Something especially cute and fusby is a schmunkin baba

Oooh i just remembered. When we are doing a food shop we often buy things for Justin.

(just in case someone comes round)

remote is - flicker
Buppy is bread and butter
lolate - was DS2's word for chocolate.
and this is my funniest one - to me anyway

Father Pissmass - when DS1 was about 18m old thats what he called santa and it has stuck

Jumbly as in Jumbly Tummy when you've eaten too much and have trapped wind...

Moop or Moopie for a pooey nappy, also applied to baby poo fired at speed from DS' arse - Projectile Moop.

Smittens - for the cats (think this one goes back to Smeeta Smitten, Showbiz Kitten)

At 33 I seem to be turning into my grandmother already (not my mother btw, she would never do anything like that. No, she just HUMS PARTS OF RANDOM MUSICAL PHRASES OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER WITHOUT REALISING SHE'S DOING IT [hangry] )

My mum is Greek Cypriot and she struggles with the pronunciation of some words in English. Genuinely, this is no lie - for years I thought there were 2 flat meat pattie things, ones named burgers (as said by most of the british public) and ones named buggers (as said by my mum). She also used to call me a 'cheeky little b*stard' because the literal translation in Greek was more like 'cheeky little monkey/ sod'. She was mortified when she found out what she was actually saying

Oh and she also once asked a barman for 'a packet of penis please', my dad nearly died!

I can't stand dodie
I quite often tell DH I'm off to doojie the wotsit. Which means time I spend explaining to him would be time better spent doojieing.

We have a Grimble which is a cuddle that turns into a tickle

Is your mother Sarah Kennedy? Does she shop at Sainsbugs?

My Dad used to have some odd words for things - such as "noo-noo" for elephant, "nully" for sellotape and "numney" for tomato.

The remote in our house is known as the "zapper".