For wanting to know about your idiolects?

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Just been enjoying trawling through Classics and someone used 'trumped' instead of 'farted'. It made me smile and reminded me of my dad (not a serial ripper of the ass (idiolect within an idiolect!), but because he uses that word too).

Instead of Waitrose, I say 'WeightRise'.

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My grandmother used to call magpies "Devil's buckets". In fact she used to interrupt other people (or even herself) to shriek "Devil's bucket!" whenever she spotted one.

Also, my mother once had some sort of senior moment and referred to her "duvet" as her "binner". No idea why. Even she was mystified. But duvets are binners in our household now.

Mrs DV - I don't like Magpies and you have just made me feel better about them!
My sister said 'pass the pittled onions' when she was little (having been told little was pronounced 'liTTle' and not 'liCKle'
Forty years on we all still say it.
Also when leaving ice cream to melt slightly for easy scoopage - this is called smlidging. (fact)

Any pointless lie is "a lie of lemon proportions" after our friend told us he didn't like lemons when, in fact, he did.

StellaNova, your post has tears running down my face :o

In this house a doofer is anything that you cant remember the name of at that moment.

DP always says "you sniff good" so we all say that now. We have snippy noses instead of sniffy noses.

The baby gets called Puddin' so much Im afraid of it sticking.

In my parents house, there is a thing known as Herbie Beasting. Said more like Herbie bay-st-ing due to the accent.

Its said when buns are put on the table and a greedy person (usually my brother or dad) sticks their finger in the biggest bun so that no one else will take it.

My dad had an uncle Herbie who did this and anyone who does it is a dirty beast, hence Herbie Beast.

My family are weird. :o

Hoofer doofer was used in the program Telly Addicts (Noel Edomonds) which is why it appears across the country I think.

We eat spiky (spicy) food. And often display our pleasure at a good meal by claiming that it is disgusting and inedible. (The idea being that you will finish others' plates in order to 'save' them the tauma of eating it themselves.)

Based on DP's mockery I assume 'donker' for remote control was just my family.

My DP is affectionately known as 'bippy' by his family because his kid sis couldn't say his name when she was little. I find it a bit disturbing now he's approaching 40!

We have "fiestas" for all foreign currency.

LOL - all of these things make me want to scream - 'There's a perfectly good word for it USE it!!' No wonder I can't stand Dr Seuss is it!?!

I shall now quietly back out and leave you all to your weirdness

I know my sister is on MN so if she reads this I am instantly outed - ours come mainly from mistakes she made when she was little, so utility room is the artillery room, balsamic vinegar is Islamic vinegar and Szechuan sauce is Saskatchewan sauce. We also have started calling gloves glubs since DN began to talk (after a fashion).

Monolopy. I've give up trying with this one. It only works if I pause then do a robot impression: Moh. Noh. Poh. Lee. And that doesn't sound like a fun hour to anyone.

We have a futility room instead of utility room. And no tea tea for decaf tea.

We are often to be found driving around a car-park looking for a 'belly-button' - this is a double space that you can drive into forwards and straight through, and then drive out of forwards as well. The term was born many years ago when DH asked me why I'd gone past a perfectly good space and I said I was looking for an inny-outy space. Someone in the car said 'What - like a belly-button?' DS has grown up thinking that this is the correct motoring term for two spaces one in front of the other and will probably mention it in his driving test.

Blanket = blanché

We have noozes instead of snoozes.

And you get bungy instead of hungry.

And whenever someone is leaving, everyone else says "off goes" while waving.

This is all courtesy of DS1.

And from my childhood, that thing you do when you wash your hair and screw it up on top of your head, is called a monkey-shardy-do. I have no idea why. It just is.

MrsDV - I'm not remotely superstitious - except with magpies.

I just can't help it. If I see a lone magpie, my hand starts inching towards my head, waiting for the moment when no-one is looking so I can salute and mutter "Hello Mr Magpie, how's your wife and family?"

DH trumps but my DM windy pops

I call woodlice 'gramphies' it came from my friend at primary school and I've never heard it from anyone else.

My parents and I still use some of the nonsense words I had when I was little. I say nonsense, but they did and still do clearly have semanticity: for example, 'snurdle' is something particularly good, grrurga' is something bad, and 'doiga' (which can be compounded to infinity, as in 'doigadoigaDOIGAdoigadoiga') is an expression of unbridled excitement.

My dad says 'ibufren' for 'ibuprofen' which drives me INSANE.

"Moth-eared" is what I say where most people would say "dog-eared" or "moth-eaten".

The past tense of eat is "et" here.

A singular scampi is a "scamp" as in "How many scamps do you want - 6 or 7?"

And I often find I leave the word know out of sentences eg. "I don't what colour it is".

Mandy Did you know a singular scampi is really a scampo? I like to call it a scampoo.

Wooferoofas
What's for afters
My brother started it

Lie of lemon proportions made me chuckle

Deedub or just Dub, the Dish Washer

we say fanjiters for fajitas, Mary pipers for Maris pipers, mataland missing out the t of course.

When dd was small she called covers Todots so that has stuck too, although dd2 calls them cuggers! Hellco for Tesco!
if anyone overheard us they would think we are a bit odd!