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'm from Leeds.
It's scone with stone, a buffet not a poof or poofe?, a clothes horse, nugget. And its Choritho. (But I'm half Spanish so can get away with it)

That's like that awful name Cholmondeley pronouncedChumley. YY to squoosh

I need a difinitive list of correct pronouncations!

Surely we're talking age/regional cultural differences here not what is normal or not?

I have never in all my life heard the word "poofay".

I knew a woman with the surname Cholmondeley who pronounced it like it's written Natural - as I didn't know about the Chumley thing, I managed to say it right for her name, but it must be really confusing!

Hang. On. One. Moment.

SUPERNOODLES WITH SUNDAY ROAST???

Yep, chicken Supernoodles with roast beef and all the trimmings! When my friend told us we were all too. Now when we go out for a meal we always whisper "this is all very nice but where are the Supernoodles??" It never gets old

I wonder when it occurred to her 'A Sunday roast is very nice but it's missing something.....what could it be?'.

Mrs Koala - I'm 56 and they definitely said Nessuls. The more recent ones have said Neslay, but I'm talking bout when the world was black and white!

Okay, from Leicestershire and scone = gone, nougat is noogah, bolognaise sounds disgusting, and the weetabix... well, words defy me, except for Yuk!

Although, if DP feels a bit hungry he will occasionally have weetabix dry with butter.

Poouffe has sometimes been poofay with parents, not sure about ILs, and is definitely pronounced footstool by me cos I can't be bothered with all the different ways of saying it!

I, too remember when Nestle was pronounced Nessuls because I remember parents and others talking about how the pronunciation had changed in the ads. Have just asked DP (he's older) and he can't remember, so he's no use.

Supernoodles

So where I am from in S Yorks, you would hear:

Scone like stone
Poofey for a padded footstool
Pilkate for a crumpet
Break-fst not breakfast

I still use all these, save poorer (as who needs to ever say that these days, can't remember seeing one for years). I appreciate a crumpet is technically different from a piklate, but seeing as you get crumpets commonly and piklates never, they serve as a rough approximation.

My dp says I am 'from the past, not the north' and I am expecting dd1 soon who will be born and raised in London,so will no doubt speak a totally different language to me

Oh, I meant to add that when I asked someone what they were cooking with, they replied "Choritho", so that's what I call it. In my defence, the person was Spanish.

As for French words in English, we have Belvoir Castle nearby, pronounced "Beaver".

Save poofey, sorry

Do the people having super noodles or baked beans and pickled onions on their roast dinners believe themselves to be the normal ones and any commenting DILs as odd and wrong? If so can we set them up with my, "what, everyone has weetabix with rhubarb and custard" lot?

I lived in a very elite academic community for some time and the pronunciation of names etc was totally used to weed out the outsiders. Lovely.

I think i actually remember when they changed how they said nestle on the adverts!i remember thinking "wtf nesslay?oh how la de daaaa'

'I lived in a very elite academic community for some time and the pronunciation of names etc was totally used to weed out the outsiders. Lovely.'

It's true isn't it? People are passing or failing tests without any clue that they are actually being tested. So provincial.

(apart from people who say poofay/poofee, they should be shunned by decent society)

Do only people who live near Belvoir knowhow it's pronounced or is it fairly well known?

Beaver

The pronunciation of 'scone' is the one thing DH and I can't discuss. Not exes, not dodgy parties, not even how mad his parents are - just how to pronounce scone. The subject that Shall Not Be Mentioned.

The in-laws' madness mostly manifests itself in food. Lots of little things that make me think WHY? For instance - soup. Served with white sliced bread which gets torn up and drowned in the soup. Yuck. Pap. So I'm asked what bread I'd like - knowing that a nice baguette or even a slice of seeded wholemeal isn't going to be forthcoming, I request toast. Bit more substance than plain white sliced you see. What do I get? 1cm cubes of white toast. Fucking croutons. Weird.

I rely on MN to remind me it could be so, so much worse.

Oh, and I definitely remember Nessuls. And Nike having only one syllable, and that awkward period when I knew it had two, but couldn't bring myself to say it correctly in everyday life. So painful for a pretentious teenager.

Hold on, Belvoir is pronounced.....Beaver??

Yup. Beaver.

are the Belvoir cordials pronounced the same way?

Bumming and blowing must be NII thing Treacle, nobody had ever laughed when I've said it.

We also have a hot press and not an airing cupboard.