To think my in-laws' ways are not normal?

[Snoot]

Apparently I am wrong and they are normal in many ways, I just find them odd! A selection from this weekend:

Stewed fruit, served for pudding, is commonly served with weetabix on top if people are still hungry

Scone is pronounced like stone

A footstall is not a puff but a poof-ay

Spag bol sauce contains no garlic, salt, pepper, or noticeable tomatoes but contains kidney beans and is served with ketchup

I could go on!

Sitting room, living room or lounge?
Sofa or settee?
Du-vay or du-vet?
Yo-gurt or yog-urt?
Creyp or crap?

Squoosh I feel your pain. Between that and the fucking marshmellow bollocks I fear I may have to have counselling.

I have never heard anyone in real life say poufay or nugget. Unless they actually mean nugget not nougat.

On the matter of pouffe.

A pouffe is pronounced poof. There is no 'ay' at the end. This is due to the absence of an acute accent. To pronounce it anything other than poof, would be entirely wrong. I could not blame you, OP, for refusing ever to speak to your inlaws again, for this alone.

I say nothing about the crimes against spaghetti bolognaise. Although I read an article today about capital punishment and thought of your in-laws.

I have never heard a real life person say pouffee or pouffay but it is with a heavy heart that I must admit I know many people who say nugget when meaning nougat, I share DNA with some of these fiends.

Marshmellow is a new horror to me.

If I heard someone say poufay or nugget in real life I fear I would have to correct them. Lots. I do say, 'do you mean marshmallows?' to DH when he slips up.

I think the gay joke is pertinent isn't it? As the child of a gay community in '70s London the puff/ pouffe comparison was contemptible and therefore ignored. We call it a pouffe (said more p-uuff than p-ouf, I must say!) with no need for embellishment. One might be embarrassed to own such a thing but certainly not to speak it's name!

It's definitely poff-ee. You are all wrong.
DD 1 says marshmellow for some strange reason.

A bad/cheeky person is known as a halian(sp?) Pronounced hal-yin.

Hopefully she'll grow out of it.

And just so you all know - the letter after g in the alphabet is AITCH. There is no such word as HAITCH. I'm looking at you, DD and DS1's reception teacher. When DS2 starts your class next September I am putting my foot down.

I haven't read the thread (apologies) but have battles with DH over similar ground.

Yes, scone does rhyme with stone.

The word "footstool" is optimum, but "poo-fay" is the correct pronunciation if you insist on using that word. NEVER poof or puff.

Marshmallow, obvs. People who say marshmellow simply can't read. It's a phonetic word FFS!

My soon to be ex MIL thinks hormones can be caught in the air

Over here if you say haitch it supposed to mean you are a Catholic, you say heeitch, a Prodestant.

Poo-fay is WRONG. I am taking this thread far too seriously. It's actually beginning to make me feel sad. Perhaps I have inhaled some hormones.

The pro Poofay lobbyists are frightening me.

They should be put in the stocks and pelted with rotten fruit and veg.

Cumbrian lass here and pronounce it scone to rhyme with gone, but DH from south west rhymes it with phone.

Mary Berry says is is scone as in gone.

Trifle never has Jelly in it. Ever. Mine does have lots of sherry and whisky in the custard.

My head is reeling and MIL says nugget

Can I suggest we pelt them with tomatoes? Or tomaytoes. Whichever.

How can it be a trifle without jelly?
It would just be cake and custard with cream lobbed on top if there was no jelly

Obviously trifle should never contain jelly but I'm busy fighting the pouffayists to pay it too much attention at the moment.

I quite like chorizo, but my favorite sausage is andouille.

I can't get my head around people saying Pooff is wrong. When it isn't. Fine other words have interpretations and regionalisations etc (scone). But it is black and white with pouffe it IS CORRECTLY PRONOUNCED POOFF. There is no ambiguity or grey area here. YOUS ARE SIMPLY WRONG!