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.

My sister's MIL was telling her about a neighbour who had Old Timers Disease. Turned out it was Alzheimers.

She was also on a first aid course & the 'expert' delivering the training kept referring to the 'Heimlich Remover'

Lazy I mean by the pronunciation that is used in general rather than specific to regions or determined by spelling.

But there is no 'general'. All pronunciation is determined to a certain extent by region. There isn't anywhere that isn't a region. You can refer to standard English, meaning London, SE England, Home Counties, RP type accent, but that's only standard because it was decided to designate it as standard. It's still the pronunciation of a particular region (or of a particular class of a particular region - because let's face it, not all people from that region speak RP English!).

Mother in law - chaos was chos, ie it was chos in Sheffield market today. When she was very elderly she had a gentleman friend, who sometimes took a female neighbour out for afternoon tea, when MIL found out, she wasn't going to be part of an international triangle

@LittleDancers - I think that Ah-liss-ee-ah is a valid pronunciation of Alicia.

lazylinguist - I was at an "Oxbridge Rejects" red brick university in the South West, long before the Russell Group came into being, though it is now RG and still thinks very highly of itself. I used to be good at French to English translation, though the course was heavily literature biased at the time, which is why I chose to go there. If I could, I would retire there but things have changed too much, so I'll be staying in southern Europe!

because let's face it, not all people from that region speak RP English!
I would contend that RP English is very hard to define nowadays.

I used to call my eyes eye bulb instead of eye ball 🤷🏻‍♀️ Probably until mid to late teens. I knew it was wrong but it just made more sense to me haha

My friend is Glaswegian. Stork sounds like storrek and pork sounds like pock when she says it.

She's wrong though, obviously 🙄

I have a cousin who says thilthy. And theather.

Picture- scu for picturesque anyone? My eight year old self backs out quietly.....

I guess so, Derxa, but it's a useful term in that most people would know roughly what kind of pronunciation/accent you mean by it.

@Dljlr Sack the juggler

My mum always tells me about my great grandma when hearing of some bush fires in Australia saying “it’s all those aubergines I feel sorry for” 🤦🏼‍♀️

I always say Icing and ice-en-ing not icing.

Not sure why I throw the extra n in but I do regardless of numerous corrections I still continue to say it like that

Favourite quotation from my children. Son number three asked me if it was school on Monday or if there was an incest day 😳

Oh, yes, MollysMummy2010, I used to use picture-scue a lot in my teens! I also loved discombobulated, which I think may be an actual, underused, word, and of course, my ghast is completely flabbered by the goings on of Cheeky Feckers on MN!
*ghast should be gast but I like it better with the extra letter!

@DaveCoachesgavemetheclap Where I am, 'Old Timer's' is simply a colloquialism, a slang term for Alzheimers Disease. Just a play on words. But everyone knows what the real term is, it's just a play on words. ie Old Timers, Alzheimers happens to old people, you know what I mean.

Lazy All very true. However as a straw poll on here (for example) there are many more posters who think Pork does rhymes with Stork and Fork, than there are not. That's the kind of "generally" I mean. "Commonly used", spanning and encompassing a large number of regions, (and accents and classes) rather than specific to a single or low number of regions.

I remember quizzing dd on her command of the english language when she was a tot. I asked her to give me an example of a question....she said "shawie" (pronounced ' shaa-wie). Confused, I asked her to put the word into a sentence...she said "Shawie go shopping?" ....shawie = shall we!!

DP says heighth instead of height. He also pronounced says like maize. Hate it!
My nephew (6) was watching football with DP the other day and said "he shouldnt have got penisized for that!!!" After pissing ourselves laughing we tried telling him it was penalised but he wasn't having it!

@BrusselSprouts12345 how else do you pronounce says?

Stork, pork, cork, fork all sound the same... but not work

Poor, pour, paw, for, fore, four, law, lore, sore, store, war, wore are also all identical sounds... but then wtf sour

I live in Yorkshire (rhymes with Porkshire)

@LittleDancers @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

I've always said 'al lis see a'but in America I've been told by friends very firmly) that it's al lee sha

“Last Christmas, I gave you my harp and the very next day, you gave it away”

5 year old me: who gives someone a harp???

Funnily enough my 4 yo asked what bumming was today. I asked him to clarify and I’d said it earlier about the oven. ‘Bung it on the oven’