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!

I have never actually needed to say scone ever in my life. To me, I'd say it like the fastest cake, I guess? My only excuse is roughly 2/3 of my life was lived out of the UK or English speaking countries.

I must stress that I don't personally use the nugget/poofay pronunciations!

Croissant and pain au chocolat must be said in the French way.

And valet is valeT, just for extra confusion some french words have been anglicised. A lot of our words are french anyway from the norman invasion, so we say them our own way as have developed over the 1000 years. But new words should stay how they are i think.

I knew a guy who went out with a spanish woman and he turned into an utter wanker and insisted he order tapas for us all . Another time a friend who spoke a little french ordered for everyone in a french restaurant to a clearly not french waitress who just looked at him like he was the biggest prick ever.

Do you remember the thread when someone said they pronounce croissant as crescent? it was hilarious.

Because they're crescent shaped??

No, because it was the way it was spelled i think. They were moaning about pretentious people pronouncing it properly iirc.

Back to chorizo, cho-ree-so is the usual Latin American pronunciation, I believe.

Oh valet stressing the 't' oh no thatd drive me mad!i also get mad when people say faux but say forx.no.no.no.no.non.ITS FRENCH,SAY IT PROPERLY AAAARGH.
really?people have never chuckled at bumming them up?its my favourite new phrase this year!

I thought that footstool & pouffe were different things.

We used to have a pouffe (poof)-& that was the noise it made if you sat on it heavily!

Thought a valet (silent t) was the person, but that they valeted-with the t iyswim.

But valet sounding the "t" is correct if you're talking about a "gentleman's personal gentleman" sort of valet.

Nestle used to be pronounced Nessuls - I remember it clearly from the Milky Bar ads. The song said 'Nessuls Milky Bar' - it was never Neslay. It may be the wrong way to say it but that's how it was originally said in the UK>

Poufe is pronounced 'poof-ay' because its a French loan word. They are correct. Its like 'buffet', which uneducated train guards now insist on pronouncing cringeingly wrongly.

It is a French loan word, but it has been absorbed into English and is therefore pouf. Unless you are Hyacinth Boucket,

Well if that's the worst thing your in laws do then think yourself lucky....my mil is 62 and struts about in tiny denim shorts, numerous dangly necklaces, baseball boots and a fag hanging out her mouth.....classy

That bolognese sounds revolting!!

I am a Southerner and pronounce it like stone.

It is a poof-ay

Spaghetti Bol sounds horrible

The dessert sounds horrible too

Scones originated in Scotland, where, IME, people say sconn to rhyme with gone.

I was raised in a house with two hideous mustard yellow leather pouffes. Pronounced pouffay.

Ahem.. Northern working class here and have never said 'pouffe' in any shape or form, it's a footstool.
Weetabix with stewed fruit sounds like a really good breakfast for a cold morning, not sure about dessert though. Limited it really does sound like a rationing thing..
Spaghetti sounds vile but I hate kidney beans.
Scone is indeed sounding like stone here, don't think I've heard it pronounced differently.
YABU to make me want a scone at this time in the morning though!

West yorks here

Nougat is Nuggat (different to chicken nuggets)

Scone is scone like phone

Pouffe is puffy

What about buffet? I like to say buff-it to be annoying but mostly it's buffy

In French pouffe is pronounced approx poof, not poofay (which would be spelt pouffé)

Buff- ay.ooh i like a good buffet.

To be fair, pouffe isn't a word I tend to have to use. But I always hear my mum's pronunciation.

Yes, your in-laws are both ignorant and tasteless . You clearly hit the jackpot...

Pouffe is pronounced pooof.

I have eaten dry weetabix with butter on it. Not bad really

To the pp who says ottoman for pouffe - they're two different things. Ottoman has storage space, pouffe doesn't.

There's a Jamie 15 minute meal that involved spaghetti and kidney beans.