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!

poofay?! what sourcery is this? It's POOF!

I was trying to remember what my grandparents called their pouffe because it wasn't a poof, poffay or even poofee. Then I remembered it was a hassock. Like the ones you kneel on in Catholic churches. According to Wikipedia it can also be called a tuffet (like in Little Miss Muffet).

We once went on holiday to Boston and spent a good five minutes trying to explain to the barman that I wanted a glass of water (hot day). You know out of the tap they coudln't figure it out from either my RP accent or dh's Souf London one

I'm Irish, from Dublin (southside, D 18) and I pronounce scone to rhyme with gone and so does everyone in my family and extended family.
Nougat is Noo-gah. Never heard nugget from anyone, ever.
It's Dor-SET Street to me too. It flows better no matter how it comes up in a sentence. Not a very discernible emphasis on the SET part but it's there.
A housecoat to me is the kind of flowery thing my granny used to wear over her clothes all day to keep them from getting ruined. They buttoned up the front and she made them all herself from dark fabric with a tiny floral pattern. Actually for all I know she didn't wear real clothes under the housecoats. The only reason I assume she did is because she would have been really cold without them.
Other than that, terry bath robe for after a shower or bath, and flimsy dressing gown for sitting around in on weekend mornings.
Stewed fruit = an old standby dessert, but never with Weetabix.

I say chor-ee-zo as that is the US and US hispanic pronunciation, but actually come to think of it the sausage I call chor-ee-zo isn't the same as Spanish chorizo. It is spiced with chili and crumbles on the pan. It has to be removed from its (usually) plastic casing and cooked before serving. I don't understand why they sell it in a casing and not in a tub or some other packaging. Spanish chorizo is spiced with hot or sweet paprika and is cured so can be sliced and eaten without cooking it.

Ha, Nooka, that reminds me of my first ever trip to New York, at 15, when I attempted to order a Mountain Dew in a restaurant. The poor waitress had to ask me to repeat it 5 times (I pronounced it Moun-tin Jew in my Irish accent) before I realised that in order for her to understand me, I'd have to say 'Moun'in Doo' .

When i stayed in New York i went to the same bagel place every day and asked for a cream cheese and tomaarto bagel to take away. Everyday it was sans tomato. On the 4th day i said clearly 'TOM-AH-TOE' and pointed to the red thing in front of them. They nodded then made the bagel without it. I said 'NOOOOO, i want tomato' pointing frantically like a mad woman and they looked blankly. Eventually, just before i set fire to my head in frustration, someone said 'ooooh Tomayto' SERIOUSLY!? I mean if someone said tomayto to you, altho it isn't the way we say it, you'd know what they meant wouldn't you? I mean WOULDN'T YOU!?

So if i need to order beer, how should i say it in Canada? BeeRRR?

You'd think in a bar they may be able to work it out! Perhaps i'm just so used to London with all the weird and wonderful accents that i expect people to adapt (well to everything other than Nugget for Noogar of course, that is just a different word altogether).

It's strange, Math, isn't it? Where I'm from and where you are from are about an hour and a half apart, yet there are so many colloquial differences. I actually don't know anyone who rhymes scone with gone, yet where you are from clearly it is the norm.

The housecoat thing, I think, depends on the part of Dublin one is from - the sister's DP and cousin's DH who call them housecoats are from Pearse St and Darndale respectively, so it may be more of an inner city / Northside thing .

Nougat pronounced as nugget - I'm from Louth, which I suppose isn't known for it's lovely accent . Don't want to name the town, but I have several extended family members who pronounce 14 as fowh-teen and mars bar as mahs baaah. I pronounce them correctly, btw, but the 'nugget' must have slipped in .

Yes, stewed fruit was the standard dessert, but never with weetabix, always Bird's custard. Sometimes it was tinned fruit with Bird's custard. My Nan is a legend when it comes to desserts!

Yes, over pronounce the R properly.

A lot of the people serving you food and drink in the US, especially in fast/sandwich/diner/lunchey places don't speak English as their first language. They are not aware that there is more than one way to pronounce tomato.

Bar culture is different there too. No 'local' really, where everyone pops in. They are strictly for a serious drinking crowd or for the singles crowd fresh out of college with disposable income and looking for someone to go home with. A bartender is going to hear the same accents and orders all the time from the same people.

Boston is also the only place I've been asked for ID in a bar as an adult (I obviously gave up on ordering word - da!). I was very annoyed, especially as dh (younger than me) wasn't! He thought it was because we were in Cambridge and I obviously looked like a student and he didn't.

I'm reeling from the fact that some posters have different dressing gowns/robes to match the occasion.

I must be a peasant but it never crossed my mind that I might want a different one for Saturday morning lounging and weekday shower.

Ha round here a house coat and dressing gown and bath robe have mixed up meanings,i just say dressing gown.hadnt heard housecoat until a year ago.laughed my head off.

Housecoats - ha! Those are the lurid polyester coat-style things women with hair in curlers used to wear over their clothes (maybe still do) while cleaning (thinking Nora Batty / Andy Capp's wife).

We were visiting relatives in Canada recently, packing to go away and they asked us to bring down their house coats. We were befuddled, more by their use of the word, which I'd never heard before with this useage - we were able to work out they meant dressing gowns. Bath robes are made of towelling, dressing gowns are not.

This thread has made me a bit nostalgic. Pouffes were everywhere when I was a small child in the 70s (as was trifle). Never heard pouffay though, there is no accent! It's pouffe, which sounds different from poof and from puff. I suppose they were footstools but as a child at least, we sat on the pouffe, so I think of them as a piece of furniture in their own right, not necessarily matching a chair.

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

Try it, it really is delicious and incredibly boozy.

It was my Mums christmas special, although the adding more booze to the whipping cream was my idea. My Mum used to put toasted flaked almonds on top but I changed it to cadburys flake crumbled one year because a friend was allergic to nuts and decided it tasted better!

We said dressing gown, Bathrobe was posh and housecoats were not!

Nougat is Noogarrr I have never heard anyone say Nugget and I have scottish family.

MrsKoala Wed 14-Aug-13 16:39:12
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 live just a few miles away from Leicester, and while Toooonahis sometimes heard, we say Panini here.

On the subject of bread, baps are the soft round rolls and cobs are a crusty version, although quite a few people do use cobs to cover the whole range.

And I've heard older people use the term housecoat, interchangeably with dressing gown or bathrobe. In our house dressing gown is used, not housecoat or bathrobe.

Amberleaf Although I hate trifle, I have decided to have a go at your recipe, for DP and Mum at Christmas I will need to replace the strawberries with another fruit as mum is allergic to strawbs.

I, also, can't believe people have housecoats, dressing gowns and robes. Are you the Beckhams?

At the ice hockey the other week Boston Police were playing and one of their supporters was telling for them to help up near the goal. Except he pronounced it "haalp".

Happy to share my boozy trifle FryOne

How about raspberrys?

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.

Caused a full on snort!

I have been known to call tuna toona ???

I can't believe anyone has a housecoat full stop!

The bath robe might be a bit damp for sitting around in...

Tis toona, and Toosday, in the US...

I say Sconn.

My parents live near Scone in Scotland, the place is pronounced Skoon but the edible is definitely a Sconn.

I've never known anyone who has a housecoat, though.

No fruit cocktail - lashings of raspberry jam and whipped cream filling the sponge, and then there's all the sherry the sponge is soaked in, plus the custard (always home made) dolloped around.