To wonder how my dd got to 14 thinking this was the real phrase?

[WellVersedInEtiquette]

We've all be ill on and off since they went back to school.
One morning Dd was telling me that she had a 'bummed up nose' I asked her to repeat it and she said the same.
I tried to clarify what she was saying and told her it was actually 'bunged up nose'. She laughed and thought I was joking!
She's decided she's going to carry on saying it the way she does
Please tell me it's not just us.

My husband is almost 40. He was astounded to learn that the dessert he loves is not called Eat And Mess...

Never heard "bummed up nose" before, only bunged up! 🤣

Eat and mess, brilliant!!

Volksdragon my son renamed them and i think its cooler

I love Volksdragon!

It's amazing how many secondary children still think an Inset day is an Insect Day!

My dad says wardroVE instead of wardrobe and garlic Glove (to rhyme with Clove) I've spent years correcting him to no avail.

I'm trying to convince my 6yo it's Show and Tell, not Show Hotel.

I thought the StarWars weapons were called Light Savers. I was in my twenties when, during a discussion about swords, it was Light Sabres.

DP thought Chest of Drawers was Chester Drawers

Not quite the same, but when DC1 was younger, an envelope was an ombleflope.

I thought the StarWars weapons were called Light Savers

Same and I also thought it was Dark Vadar

Oh and another, while I was at college I had a friend who thought it it was "quman being" not "human being". We didn't believe her and thought she was joking with us until she pulled up an essay from her old class where she'd included the word "quman being". She knew that "human" was a word, but for some unknown reason, it was "quman being". Strange.

I always pronounced "ventriloquist" as "ventroloquist" until OH told me when I was about 27. Nobody corrected me before that! I also used to think it was "Row row row your boat gently down the street".

@AryaStarkWolf I thought both of those!!!!!!

Youngest daughter used to say 'Is it breakerful?' as a toddler when told 'Don't touch that!' and we used to agree, 'Yep, it's breakerful!'

She rang me from uni to say 'Breakerful's a real word - right?'

I am ashamed of my parenting skills...

DD is 18 and recently asked about any likely 'inheritage' - love the expression!!!

DD still calls lava Loba, because that's how Dora always said it.

As a teenager When I was making a suggestion to do to things at once, I said we could kill a bird with two one stones. I use that ever since and have to think what the actual saying is.

We live in Suffolk, my DD (5.5) constantly refers to the nearby town of Bury St Edmunds as “Berries and Edmonds”

My 19 year old son thought it was Eating (eatin') Mess until recently.

DD always wears her Piniform to school

@whiteivy

Oh, and he also thought that the song Live and Let Die was Little Men Die.

I was about that age when I realised that what I thought were fork pies were in fact pork pies.

DD thought until she was about 8 that I would weave her hair into 'flats'.

Toad Path instead of towpath.

We've had a few in our family.

The early bird gets the world.
Trickle treat.
Dressing down (for dressing gown).

There was someone on here who thought the game Pass the Parcel was called Parcel Parcel. Don't have that problem up north with the short A!

I gave my head a wobble when I realised that the things in the sea were "Sea Defences" not "Seedy Fences". I was about 40 when the penny dropped.

We are bad parents and our language is not always that polite. Our child was convinced that on our lazy days, we "couldn't be asked" to do stuff!