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!

Ooohhhh zli, that makes much more sense.

A proliferation of pouffes.

Might out myself here, but my dad says 'hard on' instead of 'fast on', when he's on about being deeply asleep. In fact, we have a bit of a list of our 'dadisms'.

I say sc-oh-ne, as in "Where's my scone?" "It's by the phone!"
Nooogar (but worked in a factory that made the stuff, so forced myself to say nugget, just to fit in!)

I don't know anyone with a 'soft footstool', but my gran used to call hers a 'puffey'.

and my dm (who was welsh speaking) said "pugh - jo" for peugeot - took her 30 years of living in england to knock that on the head....

Oh, and breadrolls are COBS, although I did work in Sheffield and managed to make myself say breadcake on a near daily basis, so now consider myself bi-bread-lingual.

bread bun, roll, cob, barmcake, breadcake, stottie, oven bottom - all regional names for slightly different type of bread - quite quaint really

My friend asked for a cob in my local shop, and referred to it as a teacake. I was gobsmacked, but she's from Accrington, maybe they do things differently there?

Regional breads is a whole other country.

I must admit my introduction to "buffet" being pronounced "buffy" was a shock. It hadn't occurred to me that it was possible to pronounce it like that. There are certain loan words from French that retain their French pronunciation, and this is surely one of them. Why would you say "buffy car"? Particularly when "buff" in English has an entirely different meaning (to polish).

Most European language pronounce "u" as "oo" not "ugh" as in English, English retains the sound but spells it "oo", its a French loan word so why anglify it and sound so ridiculous?

Bread rolls are baps. Crusty rolls are hard baps .
And ring doughnuts are gravy rings.

Always with the filth coco!

I can't help it if your mind is in the gutter Squoosh

I get so confused over bread rolls...I call a "roll" a round crusty one,and the soft,fairly large ones "baps" . Small,slightly square ones are cobs.

But up here in E.Yorks,the soft ones are breadcakes...or sometimes stottie, and the round crusty rolls don't even seem to exist!

And buns are fairy cakes.

Cake should be only used for, um, cakes. You know big nes that you slice. Everything else is a bun.

I too remember Nessulls milky bar. When 'they' started saying neslay I thought it was a joke.

It's scone as in gone.

Trifle has jelly in my house, but that jelly [must be raspberry] is made with half boiling water to dissolve the jelly and the rest olorosso sherry! jelly is poured over sliced swiss roll [the sort with just jam and no 'cream'] to that you add tinned strawberrys [in juice not syrup] let that set then add custard, then cream that has had baileys whipped into it. top with a crumbled flake.

It is very boozy and not for children.

My Nanny had a Poufee, we used to called it poofaay but she'd often say 'poof' then giggle. I never realised it was such an issue!

A bun is something you do with your hair and nothing to do with bread! Rolls are rolls and as for baps......

Tsk.
If something is easy it's wee buns.

I used to love in Leicester and they said Tooonaah for tuna and instead of Panini (which should be panino anyway) they said Punani, which is a totally different thing altogether.

I now live in Canada and the conversations are to say the least. Last week DH and i ordered 2 beers in a bar, the server just looked blankly at us, we pointed at the beer tap, said 2 pints of this beer, she called someone over, they both looked blank. Eventually a customer who clearly spoke both English and, er, English, said beer (in exactly the way we said it) and they laughed and said 'oh BEER'. Um, yes. just what we said . Problem is, when there is no different word or pronunciation there is no where else to go (linguistically), you are just stuck repeating the same word, like something from the twilight zone.

*LIVE in Leicester, altho i did occasionally love in Leicester too after a few drinks usually

does it really matter

Hopefully not off thread but my ex Mil used to speak to her dog as if it were a baby.I had a cat and one day she said in front of everyone.."what is it Benjy?!Can you smell Primas pussy?!"

aaaah yes i do remember my great auntie jean asking at my wedding (loudly and in front of many friends). What my pussy was going to get up to during my honeymoon. Honestly, i don't think people even considered the possibility she could have been talking about my beloved moggy, such is the usage of the word now

Mrs. Koala - I must confess that the East Midlands accent is one of my least favourite. It really pisses me off like no other.

My mum innocently calls people 'twat' as in 'ooo what's that silly twat done now' except she pronounces it 'twot' . Neither me or my sister dare tell her as she is the sort of person who used to hide behind the radio times when wildebeast mated on tv etc...

One word i will not say is Fries, they are chips. i feel really itchy inside when i order something with F. My head tells my mouth to say it, but it just wont. i feel all anxious inside and mumble 'Burger and freeenerumthisone' and point to the menu.