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

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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.

@Sohololopopo My DH used to pronounce Hermione as Her-me-own which still makes me chuckle because he had an aunty Hermione and got her name right, he just never made the connection :')

I'd read unshed tears as unsh'd if that makes sense? I never realised there was the separation un-shed... another favourite was a girl at work insisted Severus was pronounced Serverus

My little sister always read Dumbledore as Dum-bley-dore but that was cute so I gave her a pass :D

Actually, lots of people on MN write about the "tread" rather than the "thread", which is clearly a case of mispronunciation due to local accents!

I always thought ‘for all intents and purposes’ was ‘for all intensive purposes’

"Law and war don't fucking rhyme. There's a pissing W at the end of one and an r at the other."
They do rhyme. That would be an unwritten silent w at the end of war. HTH.

DH - 'Jesus wet' instead of jesus wept. Always used during an argument which makes it even more infuriating and results in me yelling 'FFS JESUS IS NOT WET!!'

Many varieties contrast /o/ and /ɔ/ before /r/ so that hoarse and horse are pronounced differently.
Phonetics/phonology geek here! The above is from wikipedia re Scottish English. I reckon those vowels (/o/ and backwards /c/ in case they don't show up properly) make up the difference between "stork" and "pork" although might be realised slightly differently in different accents.

Law is well law and War is is W OR..R being pronounced Or not Aw
Irish accents in the republic

@Bluntness100 @AryaStarkWolf

but pork does rhyme with stork... ?

Pork - Pour-k
Stork - Rhymes with War-k

They all sound the same.......

My 17 yo DS was convinced the "cruthes" were actually "clutches". He said "Obviously they are cluthes because you have to hold them tightly when you've put your arm through the ring"!

Pronunciation threads always end in the same argument. Some people have rhotic accents and some people non-rhotic accents. In a non-rhotic accent, you don't pronounce the r in pore or stork or war. That is why they can all rhyme.

Awe
Waugh
Store
Paw
Four
Door

All rhyme in my English accent.

@Funkyslippers as a child I thought it was "life is butter dream". It made as much sense as other nursery rhymes

I recently found out that my kids thought for years that I was saying they could have a lion in the morning, rather than a lie in. Endless disappointment when promised feline never appeared.

Well i guess you could say that a bunged up nose is a bit constipated...

"Pork, stork, war, oar, pour, core, lore, law, for, four , your...all rhyme"

They really don't though...

@ShowOfHands it's the vowels that are different though, not just the rhoticity.

My Dd was well into her teens before she discovered the Lord's prayer wasn't....Our Father who art in heaven Harold be thy name. I don't know if she actually thought God's name was Harold. She doesn't like it if we mention it she's so embarrassed thinking of all those times she must have said it in primary school.

My ds thought it was a random applause! Not round of applause. We still do random claps if the occasion requires!

Law and war may rhyme in an accent but they dont actually rhyme!! I cant work out if @Jaichangecentfoisdenom is joking!

"Silent w at the enf of war" 🤣

Can someone do a little audio recording please because I can't get my head around this! I'm not disbelieving , i just cant make those sounds do anything other than rhyme!

Ds thought mushy peas were called slimy beans until he was about 6, no idea whether he misheard, got mixed up or just thought it was a good description.

Wow - another MN thread where there are loads of people from the British Isles who are totally incapable of even imagining that things sound different in each other's accents (in spite of having no doubt heard those accents loads of times).

I'm from SE England. In my accent, oar, aw, or, ore all sound totally identical. In some or possibly most Scottish, Irish and Northern Irish accents they sound different. Not sure how people don't notice these things tbh!

e.g. Law and war end in the same sound in my accent, because in non-rhotic Englush, you don't actually make a 'r' sound at the end of words like war, car, fur etc.

When it’s on the radio, my DS has always sung, “Hot dog, jumping frog, I love turkey”,

Argh! They sound the same! No they don't! Yes they do- how can they not? Seriously people - they sound different in DIFFERENT ACCENTS!

@happygoluckyhippo explains it perfectly. In some accents (e.g. some Scottish and Irish ones) the difference between pork and stork is the same as the difference between hoarse and horse. A closed o and an open o.
Law and lore are another matter. The vowels sound the same in both words but lore has an rrrr sound at the end and law doesn’t. Even in phrases like law and order! In SE England that’s lorand orda. In Scotland it’s law (space) and orderrrr.

I thought that there were many Wombles and that they were from Wimbledon, having no idea as a child that Wimbledon Common was a place name. (The wombles of Wimbledon, common are we).