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.

My daughter used to ask if I would carry her hand (hold her hand)
I still like the idea of someone carrying my hand!

My mother calls envelopes 'indablops'.

I am way older than I'd like to admit and I can't for the life of me pronounce 'ambulance' . I thought it was amublance when I was still younger and always mispronounce it still. Ambulance even looks wrong when written down. I even had to check in a dictionary that it was right!

My 9 year old dd still refers to the microwave as the ‘motorwave’, and pavement as the ‘paperment’

To be fair both hot rod jumping frog albuquerque and Nights in White Satin make no more sense than the misheard versions! In fact I think Knights in White Satin makes more sense.

I always thought that the Stranglers were singing "lays me down with my manshiro". I had no idea what a manshiro was but thought it might be some sort of Mexican musical instrument.

And Louis Armstrong was definitely singing about "the bright blessed days, the dogs say goodnight". I still remember my sister eye rolling telling me it was the dark sacred night!

I only discovered that neither of these were true until quite recently!

Not quite the same but on the news this morning whoever was typing the subtitles wrote "sex disco nation" instead of "sexual discrimination"

That made my morning

@BrusselSprouts12345 I said I was from ROI

For years I thought handbags were called ham bags.

I've managed (despite broadly RP accent) to make the pork/stork distinction with an 'ohr' and an 'awr' sound respectively, though I needed several goes. In my usual speech they'd rhyme exactly.

My dc are being raised bilingual in Germany and have come home with some utter pronunciation corkers from their school English classes, some of them rather unforgivable: 'ohven' for 'oven' was one, and 'swemps' for 'swamps' (no idea why swamps came up) another.

I say chimbley. I was born within the sound of Bow Bells, although having lived in Cheshire, Yorkshire, Southern Africa and the Channel Islands I have no idea what my accent is...

I do, however, quite like mangled eggs on toast.

And - this may be TMI at this time of night - I have had a mild attack of Dire Ear recently.

Bluntness said (at Thu 03-Oct-19 17:33:48) that she is Scottish.

(oh, and I know you don't really say RP any more, but it's an easy descriptor)

I could never remember which way was vertical and which was horizontal until last week when my husband told me that horizontal follows the horizon 🤦🏻‍♀️
I'm 63 and 3/4 ☺️

I thought in Parliament when MPs vote it was ‘Eyes’ to the right ‘Nose’ to the left!!
Only when I went to see a play in London’s County Hall and saw the word ‘Ayes’ and ‘Noes’ did I realise my mistake. What an idiot I am!!!
(Brilliant play by the way - Witness for the Prosecution)

I could never remember which way was vertical and which was horizontal

I know someone who says 'horizontical' for that reason.

I was very embarrassed as a student when I was cheerfully singing (in my catering kitchen job) the Enya song: 'Save The Whales, Save The Whales, Save The Whales' - I realised everybody was laughing when they told me it was infact 'Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away'. A couple of decades on and I still prefer my version.

My husband who is 40 loves 'mint chock chick' ice cream. I've given up correcting him

Also, I read once that if you say 'Space Ghettos' in a Scottish accent it sound like Spice Girls..... and it does!

(I am Scottish)

That meant to say 'space ghettos' in an American accent sounds like someone Scottish saying Spice Girls 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

My ex used to say valentimes day and argued with me when I said it wasn't. He thought it made more sense.

But this is from the person who also says spag BOWL which infuriates me!

Has anyone else heard the Taylor Swift song where there is a line about Starbucks Lovers... I even googled it because it sounded cool and I was wondering if there was a new dating thing where you just rocked up at Starbucks and maybe ordered a drink that meant you got matched with a compatible date. I would order something smooth and dreamy, but occasionally a shot of expresso would be nice 😂😂

Unfortunately she is singing about a List of past Lovers...not as half as interesting.

On a more family based note, we now have to use the Constructions when building flat pack furniture etc as when DS was little he mixed construct and instructions together when building lego.

3yo me - used to say flakeemo instead of flamingo and sang about ‘little horde Jesus’ in the nativity (I was a big SheRa fan at the time).

My favourite is from DS - lasterday instead of yesterday. He tells me he’s far too grown up to use it now he’s 5yo so the rest of the family and I’ve taken it on!

My three your old likes listening to queen in the car.. kept asking me to play “I’m 1,2 and 3”.. had no clue what song he meant so asked him to sing it and he did to the tune of “I want to break free” 😂

My mum call flip flops “flip flaps”. It gives me the boak 🤢

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

I'm Scottish and they DON'T sound the same to me. Pork = p-oh-rk, stork = st-aw-rk

My MiL says Mataland instead of Matalan. We smile but say nothing.

My little one frequently asks for 'strangled' egg for lunch
He also told his father I had to put his sheets he vomited on on an 'oil wash'

I thought the Irish Prime Minister was called the t shirt for far too long