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!

Ok. Haven't read the whole thread but here is one to throw in. I know two people who pronounce mattress as matt-rass. Do people say this?

We have neighbours that years ago were know as jean and graham - now they prefere Jaaaaan and Graaaaaahm !? Now what's that all about ! Have they turned French or something ?!?! Lol !!

Matt-rass? Are they mad? Where's that come from?

Jaaaan and Graaaaham clearly need to move or accept their working class origins, one or the other.

We don't have to deal with the pouffe/poofay debate in the US because we all call such things an ottoman (whether or not it has storage), but we have many folk who insist on calling a chaise longue a "chase lounge." Now that does get my pedanty hackles up.

my mum calls a violin a 'viol'n' instead of a violin. It gives me rage.

I'm very entertained by chase longe. You shouldn't tell us this stuff, it makes it too easy to chortle at the Americans! I'm sure they mean well.

Dressing gown,beth robe or house coat?

Beth?beth has a robe according to my post.Bath robe.

phantomnamechanger -I know about Trottisclife-pronounced-Trosley because my mum lives nearby in Wrotham-pronounced-Rootem.

Raised in Kent but in Yorkshire all my adult life:
Scone rhymes with gone
If I had to say pouffe it would be poooof but I prefer footstool
I was raised to say gararzh but that sounds weird now so say garridge
Similarly have abandoned grarss and barth for grass and bath.

But my DD who's Leeds born and bred has my (still mostly southern) accent.

Oh and it's choritho why would I say it any other way?

they are surely all different things Limited?

bathrobe for when you are wet/out of shower/pool. dressing gown for over nightie/making breakfast before you get dressed and a house coat to go over clothes for when you do your housework and time travel back to the 50/60's

Bathrobe in the US, often just referred to as a robe.

Oh and bathrobes are towelling and dressing gowns are cotton/waffle material etc and house coats are weird floral/quilted jackets which people who used to work in launderettes wore in Eastenders/Coronation street.

Scone can be pronounced either way.

The are correct about the pouffe.

Weetabix on stewed fruit for pudding - WTF? Weetabix is barely edible for ^breakfast, never mind pudding.

The 'spal bol' sounds grim, but there's nowt so queer as folk where food is concerned.

But they are NOT correct about pouffe Fellatio. That may be the way they/you say it, fair enough if they want to pronounce it wrong. But it isn't a matter of opinion. It IS wrong to say it like that - it isn't regional or interpretative. It is a french word said wrong.

Teacakes have fruit in
Poor canteen lady at Uni. She'd been asked for a bacon barm, a bacon cob, a bacon tea cake ... Eventually she resorted to the "point at what you bloody well want"

I eat scraps, scone rhymes with gone, and a pasty barm is a hangover cure with brown sauce

I say dressing gown, DH says house coat. If he's in the kitchen and is talking about something that is in the living room, he says it's"up the house". That annoys me.

I have to agree with MrsKoala about the 'poofay' thing. Where on earth do people get the idea that this is how the stupid word is pronounced?

Housecoats are never seen these days surely? Dressing gown over pjs when I first get up. Bath robe after shower (if the dog had not eaten it). Def different things. Eg - you do not get given a dressing gown in a hotel do you? It is a bath robe!

And weetabix is a hideous non food that should be banned.

ZutAlors 'lady fingers' are aka sponge fingers and aka savoiardi. Tiramisu is their primary culinary use along with eating them one after another in mindless fashion while wrapped up in a slanket on a comfy couch (not a pouffe because they are really uncomfortable for lengthy sitting) watching Casablanca.

OTOH (hehehe) 'ladies fingers' = okra, but never in the US, where okra is always okra and horrible and slimy, like eating big old boiled green slugs

Teenyweenytadpole, my dining room table has had five heaps of folded laundry on it for the last eight weeks. When it gets messy and the piles tip over I take the clothes and re-fold and re-sort it all. I dream of the day (not long now thank God) when I will get rid of two of the DCs (off to university) and we will be able to eat at the table again. Your ILS would be [aghast]

Am pulling up my chair and taking notes on AmberLeaf's double alcoholic jelly trifle..

MrsKoala you must have underpronounced your R in beer.
I once ordered a glass of water in a major US city and the waiter brought me a Leinenkugel.

Prima, you've just caused a very loud insomniac guffaw!

Mrsnoodle, yours wasn't bad either! It sounds as though your mum's only seen "twat" written down, rhymed it with "what", and run with it. Please don't educate her :)

I've got a somewhat alarming, purple, fleece housecoat I asked for one for Christmas (well, I didn't specify purple) because I wanted something voluminous & fluffy to wear all day throw on if it's chilly when I get up.

Oh fucking hell.

I'm from NI and it has never occurred to be that bumming and blowing is a very odd way to describe someone boasting, I must have had people laughing at me for decades!

I also remember Nessuls milky bars and Moulin ex makes things simple and that includes the price.
S'gone
Haitch if you are Catholic, Aitch if Protestant
My granny definitely had a Poofay.
Gravy ring (why though?)
Trifle with jelly
I know noogay is correct but feel ridiculous saying it out loud as in my head its nugget.
Hot press
Clothes horse.

where okra is always okra and horrible and slimy, like eating big old boiled green slugs

But mathanxiety, have you ever had it fried? It is my favorite food. But it has to be done right; sliced thinly across the width of the pod, lightly dusted with cornmeal, and fried quickly in oil. Not slimy or sluggy at all. Pure heaven.

Garlicagain and Mrsnoddle FWIW, "twot" is the American pronunciation.

Bumming and blowing is truly fantastic.

Lol at Squooh "I refuse to accept (from someone who bums and blow)..."

I was put off by the gumbo I have to admit, but fried sounds nicer so I may give it a go. A lot of things are nicer fried I am my father's daughter

Love this thread.
I'm Irish, and everyone I know pronounces scone like cone/phone/loan.
Pouffe is pronounced poof - though I have been known to say ottoman .
DP's Mum regularly says 'bumming and blowing'. We live v near the border so perhaps it is a Northern thing?
Everyone I know pronounces nougat as 'nugget'.
I do correctly pronounce Möet as 'Mwett'.
A poster upthread mentioned Dorset St in Dublin - it actually is pronounced Dor-SET St, as the poster said. Or that's the only way I have heard it pronounced, at least.
I call my fluffy, towelling robe a bath robe, and my light slinky one a dressing gown. On a weekend away with my family, both my sister (living with a Dub) and my cousin (married to a Dub) informed me that both are referred to as a housecoat .
Stewed fruit - in my Nan's house, dessert was stewed apples with custard. Bird's custard made from powder, with the skin on top.
I do say chorizo etc with an accent, but in my defence, I studied Spanish in Secondary School.
I also know someone who pronounces fajitas as fah-CHEE-tas, which drives me irrationally bonkers. As does my Father pronouncing croissant as crahzzant.