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

942 replies

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:
HariboLecter · 03/10/2019 22:25

@Yogobo I say miffed top.

but then I think pork & storks rhyme so what do I know?

HariboLecter · 03/10/2019 22:26

Too, not top!

Knittedfairies · 03/10/2019 22:26

My late MIL pronounced Chihuahua as chi-hewa-hewa. It didn't come up in conversation very often though, as she didn't know anyone who owned one.

Jetstream · 03/10/2019 22:27

I always pronounce Tunnocks the tea cake maker as Tussocks, god know why. I frequently get stuck halfway through some words and just give up. My family are from Lanarkshire but we’ve lived in Cork for years. I think we still have some slightly Scottish ways of pronouncing words.

ethelfleda · 03/10/2019 22:28

I once met someone who thought very overweight people were referred to as ‘morbidly a beast’

Idontwanttotalk · 03/10/2019 22:29

Epitome.

A Medium at a local spiritualist church refers to Old Timers' disease ( and really thinks that is the correct phrase). She also refers to cartridge trouble (instead of cartilage).

Slappadabass · 03/10/2019 22:29

Watching a film with my OH and someone was called a 'Prima Donna' he said, well that can't be right, this was set well before Madonna was born.
He thought it meant pre-Madonna, as in, before Madonna was born. Could not stop laughing Grin

LionelRitchieStoleMyNotebook · 03/10/2019 22:30

@mrspotatohed my dad says wardrove!! I've never heard anyone else do it. Does your dad also say windowsilv?

blahblahblahblahhh · 03/10/2019 22:30

@DonPablo my DH thought it was Eat and Mess too!

stillbeingwatched · 03/10/2019 22:31

@whiteivy ombleflope!!!!!! Brilliant!!!!

drspouse · 03/10/2019 22:31

My DD is 5 and says "night night, sleep tight, don't let the bunk beds bite". Which is honestly more scary.

millstonegrit · 03/10/2019 22:37

When DD was about 5 I asked if she wanted something to eat. She told me she wanted a trombone. Puzzled I asked her what she wanted and she said 'trombone and healthy teef' I realised she meant a yogurt and that every time I gave her one I said 'healthy bones and strong teeth'.

BrusselSprouts12345 · 03/10/2019 22:40

Just to be clear - I don't say it like it rhymes with laid. My DP does and it drives me mad.
But I also have (very pathetically) just googled it and then asked my English professor mother (she was asleep so not amused)... says is, to our ear, pronounced sez. However it is actually pronounced with a slightly elongated "e" or a slightly shortened "ai" or "ae" - the closest to it, in easy to understand written form, is sez.
My brain is now scrambled and I'm still pronouncing pork/fork/stork/war/floor in different accents, in a whisper so as not to wake my partner, and either I'm shit at accents (probable) or they sound the same in any accent I try!!!!!!
Feel like such a loser... especially because I'm arguing (lightheartedly I hope you know!!!!!) over how to say says! 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

LittleDancers · 03/10/2019 22:40

Lazy I've clarified my statement several times over since then. Hmm Shall we move on politely now? Smile

zzzzzzzx · 03/10/2019 22:40

DD found out when about 15 that it wasn't "throw a spaniel in the works"!🤣

ElizaPancakes · 03/10/2019 22:41

Can anyone hear this? imgur.com/a/HVig2G0

My accent - bland Home Counties. Fully aware of rhotic accents but I’m struggling how stork and pork wouldn’t sound the same. They both have an r.

icanclearabuffet · 03/10/2019 22:48

My DD as a toddler...
I'm poorly I need some megicine.
Are we staying in a helltel tonight?
I got a kertificate at school today.
Can I have sketti a mando for tea? Took us ages to work that one out. She meant spaghetti with tomato. Otherwise know as spaghetti bolognaise.
We still say these now. She's 18 😬

UnderperformingSeal · 03/10/2019 22:49

Pork has an o sound that isn't present in stork

@Bluntness100 you need to tell us where you're from, because just about everywhere else ... it doesn't.

BrusselSprouts12345 · 03/10/2019 22:52

@UnderperformingSeal I think she said she was from Republic of Ireland. Or was that @AryaStarkWolf ? I can't remember now...

Bigoldwimp · 03/10/2019 22:53

“Our Father who art in heaven Harold be thy name“

My friend thought it was “Our father , rich aunt in heaven “ and was thoroughly disappointed to find out she didn’t have one

BrusselSprouts12345 · 03/10/2019 22:54

@Bigoldwimp "Harold" be thy name???? This just made me laugh out loud 🤣🤣🤣

Anoisagusaris · 03/10/2019 22:57

As a child reading Malory Towers books, in my head I pronounced Alicia as A-lick-ia.

And Mme Dupont (the French teacher) as Mem Dupont - had no idea it was short for Madame in French.

SuzieSunshine · 03/10/2019 22:57

I thought that the votes counted in the House of Commons were 'Eyes to the right. Nose to the left'. It makes much more sense now I know that it's 'Ayes to the right. Noes to the left'.

GreigLaidlawsbarofsoap · 03/10/2019 22:57

My husband says pork like it rhymes with stork, it drives me nuts and I want to punch him when he says it.

Maybe it's my Scottish accent, but they do sound the same to me too! How can you say pork any other way?

Sneezeandooops · 03/10/2019 22:58

Pork and stork has become the new blue/black/gold dress thing.
Pork and stork sounds the same in cornwall