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.

Ah, there’s a thought . Thanks!

Just a note...I live in Australia and "aborigines" isn't a PC term. We say "Aboriginal people" or some people say Indigenous...but I have spoken directly to Aboriginal people who don't like the term Indigenous...one woman told me it made her sound like a native plant.

Ideally, people are referred to by their tribe. But there are many...so unless you know that it's hard to do. Here in South Australia for example we have the Kokatha people, the Tjarutja, the Pitjantjatjara...and you'd say "This is Anna, she's a Kokatha woman"

Iklboo ... that comes from an old Radio 1 jingle "ooh Gary Davis, ooh Gary Davis, ooh Gary Davis on your radio!!"
My personal mix up as a child was cold sore and coleslaw. I kid you not

Ah sorry- not iklboo .. whoever posted the Barry Davis thing ..

@LemonPrism
that's the American pronunciation tbf
No way! I genuinely didn’t know that! Every days a school day!

Green Witch Meriden.

(I knew the correct spelling, but that's how I pronounced it for years.)

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Pork does rhyme with stork?

Pork, stork and fork all rhyme. That's not helping!

St-awe-rk.
Pour-k.

Again not helping. Awe and pour also rhyme!

minimum I imagine you say pour like paw which rhymes with awe?
I’m Irish so the letter R is always pronounced

I was offered ‘skinned milk’ in a hotel last weekend

they all do rhyme but thinking about it, if said in a proper Yorkshire accent it would be... powerk (nearest spelling I can think of to pronounce it!)

Sister thought cappuccino was cup of Chino. Mind you, it was the 80's

I used to read quite a lot, but I didn’t always take time to look closely at some words. I only discovered that ‘Netherlandals’ was in fact Neanderthals in my 20s. I still have to stop and consciously think about how to say it.

I thought the song ‘the first cut is the deepest’ was ‘these curtains are cheapest ‘!

@bluntness100 he’s right!

My nephew was about 17 before he caught on that my surname wasn’t “Laurels”. My sister would say “we’re going over the The Laurels” today, meaning the area I lived in.

Mine too 🤣🤣🤣

Not phrases, but mispronunciation of words.

DH:
Simular (similar)
Communial (communal)
Dawarf (dwarf)

DH and his whole family:
Wolverine (warfarin)
Havana's (Havaianas)
Hugh-mus (hummus)

Despite my MANY corrections over the long years of our relationship he/they continue to use them.

There are a shit tonne more, those are just off the top of my head.

my kids dont say ornaments, they are ordiments. And according to my son, I used to work in a hostipal. I love all the quirky language and I refuse to correct them, even now we dont have possessed peas in our house as none of us like them

16 year old still calls eyebrows eyebrowns

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@Bluntness100 I've tried...honestly...and I cannot make pork and stork NOT rhyme. You are being U 😂😉.

Director of a company I worked for used to say sustificate for certificate.

It irritates me when people say longtitude for longitude.

But who am I to criticise others? I used to say floral ounces for fluid ounces! I even occasionally wondered what flowers had to do with it, but mostly I never thought about it until one day DH laughed and corrected me. (I still rather like floral ounces though ....)