AIBU, or is the sentence..

[ItsTricky]

'I've been married to my husband (or wife) for 26 years'

Ridiculous?

Of course you're married to your husband. Who else would you be married to?

I hear this a lot and it always annoys me

I also read about someone who married herself (probably in Grazia ) (though she did say she wasn't necessarily ruling out marrying someone else later! Committed eh.)

Egg omelette would annoy me.

I do say "wAffle" but only as a joke pronunciation (when accusing family members of waffling on), is that OK?

That I can live with cat

When the kids visited she would ask if they wanted waffles and beans and they would just look at her confused. She calls a duvet a 'dove ay'ay' (emphasis on the ay) as well. I think she secretly harbours a desire to be hyacinth bucket

There was an extra ay in that
'Dove ay'

I think I am probably more unreasonable than you OP. I did a YTS, in the years it was running. Loads of people called it the YTS scheme, which is saying the Youth Training Scheme Scheme! Why would people do that?

Totally unnecessary use of an extra word!

Sisters of Percy, how do you pronounce duvet?

OP I don't mind that sentence, I agree it qualifies having been married to the same person, plus it denotes gender though I imagine most straight people aren't using it for that reason.

I pronounce duvet Doo-vey

Doo-vey vs Dove-AY

Stress should be on the penultimate vowel. That's true of Spanish anyway I'm sure it's similar for French.

O/T the word 'penultimate' bothers me slightly. What's wrong with 'second last'? And people generally don't use "ultimate' to mean the last or final of something. It doesn't stop there though. There's a word for 'third last', 'fourth last' etc. but they get much less frequent mention.

Not sure... it sounds like a pretty normal choice of words, although the 'husband/wife part is a bit superfluous.

On the other hand, I absolutely hate the phrase 'they both really love each other'. There is no need for the 'both' at all. It just sounds ridiculous.

Sisters of Percy, how do you pronounce duvet?

Doo Vey. Mums is Dove ET to rhyme with shoveit