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To think my in-laws' ways are not normal?

452 replies

Snoot · 12/08/2013 22:56

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!

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SarahNoDuck · 13/08/2013 11:14

What's wrong with clothes horse?

diddl · 13/08/2013 11:15

When we had one of these, we called it a clothes horse.

And this we called a clothes horse.

We havethis now, & we call that an airer!

MrsRachelLynde · 13/08/2013 11:19

Sorry duffle but I also speak French, and the peu in Peugeot is pronounced peu. As in, un petit peu. it's a puh (or per...We don't really have an English equivalent) sound, not a pew sound.

So there!

MrsRachelLynde · 13/08/2013 11:23

Also, I bet you say renno for Renault and not ren-olt. Or do you?

squoosh · 13/08/2013 11:24

To be fair, the French butcher enough English words themselves.

LimitedEditionLady · 13/08/2013 11:24

I say airer,the shops around here sell airers but not clothes horses...
They look nought like horses do they

ChunkyPickle · 13/08/2013 11:30

If you're not going to say perzho, then shouldn't you really be saying pewjyot not pewjo? After all it's jyograffee (geography)...

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squoosh · 13/08/2013 11:34

Oh well there is something called Philly Steak too, sure I've seen it on Man v Food.

Yep, here it is, looks like a heart attack in a roll.............I want one now!

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ScrambledSmegs · 13/08/2013 11:44

Norf Lahndahn here. S'gone, Poooffe, noo-gah. Poofay made me laugh, it sounds so very Hyacinth Bucket Grin

Things I know how to pronouce correctly, but can't bring myself to as I'd look like a plonker -

Chorizo
Moët
Belvoir

squoosh · 13/08/2013 11:49

Moët is one I insist on pronouncing properly, m-wett. People love doing that patronising little laugh and telling you 'it's French, you prononounce it mo-ay'.

Foolz!

Goldenhandshake · 13/08/2013 11:52

My aunt cooks beef to within it's life, it's the only instance where I ahve known a meat to be crumbly, dry and unchewable all at once Grin. She also mashes brussel sprouts with butter.

TheHandbagOfGlory · 13/08/2013 11:52

In one place I lived in Scotland the name Farquhar was pronounced Facker, and people laughed heartily when I pronounced it Far-kwar Confused

treaclesoda · 13/08/2013 11:57

oh, there is a solicitors office in Dublin called Beauchamps, and I was heartily laughed at when I pronounced it all French like, and they fold me it was 'Beechams'. Blush. Is that common knowledge? Was I just really poncey thinking it was French?

treaclesoda · 13/08/2013 11:57

well, they didn't fold me, obviously. They told me. Through their laughter...

SofiaVagueara · 13/08/2013 11:59

People who say scon and puff are common.

SofiaVagueara · 13/08/2013 11:59

The Queen says scone not scon. Trufax.

squoosh · 13/08/2013 12:04

I'm from Dublin treacle and I didn't know that, I would have been all Frenchy in my pronunciation too! There is a bar called Bruxelles that we pronounce as Bruk-sells. So wrong.

squoosh · 13/08/2013 12:05

The Queen says skown? Shock

I say skown but always thought it was the peasant pronunciation.

TheHandbagOfGlory · 13/08/2013 12:05

treaclesoda I only discovered the Beauchamps/Beecham thing recently and that was because of Connie Beauchamps on Holby City, they said her name then I saw it written on the office door Blush

I have also been caught out by St-John Lewis being Sinjun Lewis.

squoosh · 13/08/2013 12:07

I bet lots of people would have no clue that Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Fanshaw.

That's a trick used to weed to peasants from the poshos.

TheHandbagOfGlory · 13/08/2013 12:09

Well, it's now conclusive, I am a peasant Grin

Goldenhandshake · 13/08/2013 12:18

*to within an inch of it's life

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