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!

When you say nugget, do you mean say nugget as a pronunciation for nougat? That's noo-gar surely?

God. If someone is boasting I say they bummed and blowed .
It's like I'm hearing it for the first time.

A LOT of people pronounce nougat as nugget. All of Scotland it would seem.

What 'other way' could it mean coco? I mean other than the rude way? How does it any way imply boasting?

Bummed and blowed:-)

Sounds like a Friday night.

Holy crap Squoosh - really? i knew there was a reason i never went outside the m25. Why would you say it like that?

I blame my mum, she says it.

It's nugget over here too.

I think it's the same reason some pronounce the e in pouffe or the way some people pronounce Nestle as 'nessuls'

But pouffe doesn't have an accent on the e and nestle does doesn't it?

I may be confused i am still reeling over nugget. Honestly, if i heard someone say that i would never work out what they meant. Even if they were pointing at nougat and saying 'that nugget there'.

I have never heard anyone say nugget for noogar. And I've live in Scotland for six years.

I say POOF, oh says POOFAY.

I'm in Scotland and say scon and poofay.

Haven't heard of the Weetabix thing, but my Gran used to crumble oatcakes over her stew, I guess for 'regularity'.

The spagbol sounds awful, I guess she got the wrong end of the stick but my mother does similiar. I think my Mum read a recipe for Bolognaise that said red wine vinegar, but she read it as plain vinegar so her bol always tastes and smells strongly of malt vinegar. She just doesn't believe me when I tell her otherwise!

Ooh, ok, if we're lurching down the road of correct pronunciations generally, please may I throw chorizo into the mix?

Yes poofay is wrong and nessuls is wrong also but people seem to use them. Am yet to hear a Scottish person not pronounce nougat as nugget.

Then again in English it is considered correct to pronounce the t at the end of valet even though that goes against the French pronunciation.

I am American. We say ottoman for pouffe. And nougat is NOO-gat.

As for scone, most Americans pronounce it wrong, but not me.

Oatcakes on stew! I suppose that's fibre tastic . Vinegar in bolognaise may make it even worse than my experience, is it served with a knife and fork?!? I've had two 1st-parent-meetings historically where I was presented with spaghetti bolognaise and a knife and fork, most trying!

These people managed to raise your DH, whom you loved enough to marry, so leave them alone!

I hate when people do the chureetho pronunciation for chorizo. It may be correct but I automatically think 'wanker' :-)

You may only pronouce chorizo as 'choritho' if you are genuinely of Spanish origin. Otherwise you are middle class & pretentious. My mum says 'bagwet' (baguette), Per-gi-oh (Peugeot) and the infamous 'kweesh' (quiche). She also sings along to the radio in the car with a 1 second time delay. My husbands knuckles turn white on the steering wheel

Oh, and it has to be 'scon', otherwise we can't do the 'where are they then' joke every time I make Plum Scone.

How do you say croissant? Pain au chocolat? etc? Some things have to be said in french.

I didn't mean ? after etc. I know how you say that. Unless yo do it like Yul Brenner in the king and i, then you are just plain wrong!

I'm Scottish and I would say "noo-gah" but there is a thing from the ice cream van called a nougat which is pronounced "nugget" here.

On the chorizo thing, is it ok to say "choh-reet-zho"?

I love plums scone! Where?!?

If we're wankers to attempt choritho where are we with keen-wa?

Constipated Snoot