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

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 03/10/2019 16:23

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 Grin
Please tell me it's not just us. Confused

OP posts:
Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 20:37

lazylinguist - I'm hoping that right up there with you! I think!

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 20:37

@lazylinguist jeez no need to be rude about, it's not that serious 😂

NarwhalsNarwhals · 03/10/2019 20:37

@BertieDrapper Chimley is a dialect thing, it is a real word. My parents have been arguing over it since I can remember (coz Dad says chimley) but it is in the dictionary, Dad gets the dictionary out to prove it every so often coz he's a roofer so the argument comes up a lot.

TooManyGlasses · 03/10/2019 20:39

Ha! I’ve been reading bits of this thread with my DD (aged ten), and got to the one that said “....Harold be thy name...”.

Her reaction: “Hang on - that isn’t it?!?”
Then in response to my disbelief: “Is it herald?”
Um, no....
Hysterics all round!

On a similar theme, the other day my DS (aged four) was singing loudly in the car “Zinga zanga, zinga zanga...” on repeat. After a while DD realises what tune he was aiming for and said “Hey, they sounds like the song we sang in assembly...”
It was “Sing hosanna”...

happygoluckyhippo · 03/10/2019 20:40

Ah come on folks, surely we can agree that different accents can have different vowel and consonant sounds?
For me "shore" and "sure" DO NOT sound the same, for instance ("sure" is pronounced "shoor")
Still don't agree? Well, then I declare that the words "pull" and "pool" sound the same! Grin

2under3 · 03/10/2019 20:40

I think I can’t top it off. My dh came home from work after a long night out and told me he was hanging like a horse. I questioned him as to why he was telling me he had a big willy and it turns out he just meant hanging as in hung over. To top of off he’d told pretty much anyone who asked him how his day was that he was hanging like a horse and nobody questioned him

lazylinguist · 03/10/2019 20:41

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Scottish pork/stork difference is that pork has kind of slightly more of an 'oo' sound before the pronounced 'r' sound, whereas stork has more of an 'or' sound like the Southern English 'or', but again with an actual pronounced 'r' (which many English speakers from England don't pronounce).

derxa · 03/10/2019 20:41

"/or/ and /ur/ are contrasted so that shore and sure are pronounced differently, as are pour and poor." No they're not!
I should have added 'in Scottish English'
Scottish accents have a completely different vowel system. I was a SALT and spent 5 years studying Linguistics and Phonetics... but what do I know. Confused

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 20:41

It was me who said "another THING coming" as a joke (I did add a winking face) earlier on this thread. There have been at least two other threads covering "another think coming" on MN.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 20:42

Choking, *2under3. That's really funny! Grin

happygoluckyhippo · 03/10/2019 20:42

@derxa snap! Linguistics grad and SLT here! high five

ginginchinchin · 03/10/2019 20:42

My daughter thought Madonna sang 'like a bird skin'

strangerthongs · 03/10/2019 20:44

I'm deaf so mishear things all the time.

I thought summer of 69 was "my first real sex dream"

sheshootssheimplores · 03/10/2019 20:44

My six year old told me yesterday that the boys were talking about their ‘peanut’ in the boys toilets at school. I pondered this for a few seconds, then said; ‘do you think they meant penis?’ Oh yes he said, that’s what they said. Me and my three year old laughed and laughed 🤣

strangerthongs · 03/10/2019 20:45

oh and "outwith" is totally a word.

sailorcherries · 03/10/2019 20:45

Scottish, just outside Glasgow.

Pork and stork don't sound the same to me.

Pork is more of a p-oh-r-k (oh as in "oh no").
Stork is more of a s-t-aw-r-k (aw as in "paw").

Fork is f-aw-r-k
Poke is p-oh-k

It's definitely regional and happens in other languages. In Spanish Spanish a soft c is pronounced as a /th/ whereas in Mexican Spanish the same soft c is pronounced more like a /ss/.

derxa · 03/10/2019 20:46

Hi happy It's so difficult to describe these things on here. I tried googling but nothing definitive. I'll go and bang my head on a brick wall instead. Grin

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/10/2019 20:47

Yes, derxa, you should have mentioned "in Scottish English" Grin What is a SALT in this context, please? Scottish As a Language Teacher?

sailorcherries · 03/10/2019 20:50

Speech and language therapist, I assume.

scaryclare666 · 03/10/2019 20:50

My wee boy wanted crisps so I asked him what flavour he wanted, Smokey boakin 😂😂 they will always be smokey boakin now.

derxa · 03/10/2019 20:51

Scottish As a Language Teacher? Are you funning me? Grin
Speech and Language Therapist

happygoluckyhippo · 03/10/2019 20:51

@ShowOfHands (sorry don't know how to quote properly!)
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.

Yes, agreed but unfortunately before -r is the only environment in which the vowel contrast occurs in that way! Just a shame the original words had a postvocalic /r/...

In other news, there should totally be a linguistics board. I'd frequent the crap out of that!

cacklingmags · 03/10/2019 20:52

A couple of faves are:
Its a doggy dog world.
A bowl in a china shop.
These are sometimes known as mondegreens after a folk song with the misheard phrase - Lady Mondegreen, actually - Laid him on the green.
Also known as eggcorns - acorns, silly.

angeltattoo · 03/10/2019 20:54

And it was literally only last year that I learned "segue" was actually the word I thought must be spelled "segway"

@OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg for me it was 30 seconds ago! I can't believe I had that one so wrong...

sometimeorother · 03/10/2019 20:54

My only excuse is that the radio sound was quite distorted back in the day. I used to sing "The Reverend Blue Jeans" for Forever in Blue Jeans.

Another time my DD was astonished when she saw the word children printed in a book, when she was about three. She thought all this time we'd been saying trilldren. It took me ages to convince her the book was correct and the word began with chil not trill. :)