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.

I've only just realised that pavement is pronounced how it looks. I've always said paythment. No one has ever corrected me and I'm not normally stupid. I'm 36!

I know hippo but I didn't want to complicate things! Lots of people can't fathom how the sounds can rhyme when a word contains a vocalised r. Take away rhoticity and it's a step in the right direction to understanding the possible differences and how rhoticity shapes a sound in the first place.

I only realised recently that Han Solo was Han Solo. I thought he was Hands Solo

My daughter just asked me for a Chanel jumper for her birthday....she meant chenille 🤦🏼‍♀️

My Dd is only 4 but I love it when she’s been spinning around and then says mum I’m really busy she means dizzy

/or/ and /ur/ are contrasted so that shore and sure are pronounced differently, as are pour and poor.

Dd (6) still thinks lookaftering is one word. We never corrected her. (Is Granny lookaftering me later?)

I'm awaiting the inevitable "but hoarse and horse rhyme" posts...

I'm loving the fact that out of all the many controversial posts I have read from Bluntness over the years, pork-storkgate is probably the most controversial of them all. This place is batshit

But hoarse and horse are pronounced exactly the same way, too!

Like course and coarse.

Well poor and pour are different (slightly) in my accent too but then they are different vowels too.
Still doesnt explain stork and pork

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

They really don't though...*

@TrendyNorthLondonTeen

They really do. (London/Surrey) and would if the queen was saying them too. Surely that says something.

Our Father who art in heaven Harold be thy name

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the difference between pork and stork is the same as the difference between hoarse and horse.

Yeah that really doesn't help! They sound the same too for me.

@windandme it’s tenterhooks not tenderhooks....

The queen may say law and war as though they rhyme but they only rhyme in the accent that she has.

When I was in secondary school my RE teacher gave a lesson discussing Euthanasia... I had never heard of this before, and thought she was saying Youth In Asia. I spent the whole lesson totally puzzled over why all young people on an entire continent didn't want to live.

@Mumsnet This, needs to be sent straight to Mumsnet Classics!

Can we have a whip-round to get funds to allow MN to develop an upload facility for audio sounds, so we could demonstrate how pork can be different from stork and hoarse can be different from horse.

@SaraNade I pronounce hoarse and hoarse differently 😂

Hoarse - Whore-ss

Horse - haw-rse

Hoarse/horse I mean

Yes but whore and haw sound the same in lots of people's accents .

"/or/ and /ur/ are contrasted so that shore and sure are pronounced differently, as are pour and poor."
No they're not!

And the Queen’s pronunciation is irrelevant, bless her. She and her family say hice for house.

Motherinlawsdung - yes, absolutely, and the rest!