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.

but how are pork and stork different? Or indeed, port and sort?

Both different in my accent. Pore-k. Stawrk. Pore-t Sawrt.

I get why stork and stalk are different (although I pronounce them in the same way) but how are pork and stork different?

Or indeed, port and sort?

Pork for me has an "Oh" sound. Stork has an aww sound like awe.

My son was upset the other night because I was going to make him eat Toad Food (Tofu)

My 12 year old says 'I cant be asked' when she doesn't want to do something and calls a shirt a Blouser

Ooh book-marking this for a proper chuckle later when I've finished scratching the surface of my life's mess....

Just a quickie, not pronunciation but kind of related......

I was probably in my 30s when I saw a picture of a whole tuna fish for the first time and was utterly amazed at its size...... tuna comes in little tins like sardines right - so my brain decided tuna must be little fishes too - doh! Never made the same mistake with salmon though - probably because I'd seen whole salmon before......

Oh and when I was a child and had just started to read bigger words, I startled my Mum and a few other people in M&S by asking loudly why shop-lifters would be executed.......

Oh and trying to say the plural of things stumps my son, he was looking in the supermarket for Halloween mask'ez

Sat like a loony repeating pork and stork over and over again in different accents, failing to find and difference in pronunciation confused Because you have a different phonological system. There's no logic to it

So if Michael Jackson didn't sing:
"Take a walk to the post office, Don't stop til you've had enough" then what the hell was it?

Only very recently did I find out that both my kids have always thought we go on days out to ‘Lady Street’ (aka Lake District!)

I only found out at the age of 30 that it's 'perverting the course of justice' rather than the 'court of justice'. At least now it makes some sense 😂

My daughter calls meringues meringu-tangs (like orangutan). It's adorable and I can't bring myself to correct her.

So if Michael Jackson didn't sing:
"Take a walk to the post office, Don't stop til you've had enough" then what the hell was it?

I always thought it was 'hello we're the porn stars, don't stop till you get it up' but then again I'm just bloody strange

3yo DS thinks 'Ostrich' is pronounced 'Osquidge'

Oh and I thought Sinn Fein was just a person with a name a bit like the tiger from The Jungle Book. Only realised this year 😒

The more people post that pork has an oh sound and stork has a aw sound, or whatever, the more they’re totally failing to explain it properly to those of us who think they all sound exactly the same.

I learned about the pork/stork thing back in the Dark Ages, when I learned shorthand. Shorthand's phonetic, and where you place the symbols, relative to the line on the page, is determined by the first vowel sound in the word. Pitman, who invented it, came from the Cotswolds, so you have to "hear" dictation in a Cotswold accent.

I've been really chuckling at the thought of hundreds of MN'ers muttering "pork/stork/walk" etc to themselves while sitting on trains, buses etc. Bet you all looked like nutjobs!

I was doing it too, but I was home alone, so no-one knows.

My son thinks ‘non uniform’ is actually ‘long uniform’ and he has to wear long clothes 😲

@LakieLady - I do T-line shorthand, vowels don’t enter into it thanks goodness.

My husband was teased mercilessly by all the cooler kids at primary school when he mentioned "Section Intercourse" one day.

My youngest used to like going to DocNonalds and so we still call it that today (they are all teens now).

Dd2 used to say 'Rhinosero' for rhinoceros

Bluntness Have you apologised to your DH yet? Oh and you need to faithfully promise that you will never give him grief whenever he uses those words correctly again.

Pork for me has an "Oh" sound. Stork has an aww sound like awe

So pork is like poke?

I've never heard it pronounced like that - what area of the country does that accent come from?

I remember the time as a kid I realised Grand Prix wasn't Grand pricks.

I wonder how I got to 45 thinking that the word pork rhymes with fork in every accent...

Same here, and I'm 63.

What I remember is constant references to "new clear war" on the news when I was a child!

So pork is like poke?

Yes, like poke with an r in the middle.