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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:
MrsSchadenfreude · 03/10/2019 17:13

But pork does rhyme with stork, doesn’t it? Confused How else would you pronounce it? @Bluntness100

stuffedpeppers · 03/10/2019 17:13

one man went to mow, went to mow a meadow

I looked that one up in an atlas many times because I wanted to go there - 21 before I realised that it was not Mowameadow

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:13

Anyone else want to ask Bluntness this question... ? Grin

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:14

Doesn't pork rhyme with stork then?!

I was in my 30s when I found out my grumpy next door neighbours were in fact called Mr and Mrs Moss, not Moth.

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:14

but pork does rhyme with stork... ?

Pork - Pour-k
Stork - Rhymes with War-k

notangelinajolie · 03/10/2019 17:14

My DH insists mashed potatoes are smashed potatoes.

MillicentMartha · 03/10/2019 17:15

But pork does rhyme with stork? Confused

I use to say chimley as well as a child in Bristol. It must be the Bristol ‘L’ like saying ideal instead of idea.

pinkprosseco · 03/10/2019 17:15

My oldest, supported Tottenham Hot Sperms for a while and liked to speak to his Auntie Amphibian (Vivian)

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:16

YY

PORK = POURK
STORK = Rhymes with FORK

MillicentMartha · 03/10/2019 17:16

Arya in my accent pour rhymes with war. Shock

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:16

YY

PORK = POURK
STORK = Rhymes with FORK

iklboo · 03/10/2019 17:16

Argh. Posted twice. Sodding app.

NuttyNutty · 03/10/2019 17:17

One colleague of mine used to say "vegebetles" instead of vegetables. The job was a waitress in a restaurant so it was not a word she could escape...

hgdg2018 · 03/10/2019 17:17

My step-daughter once said she had "peas and noodles" in her feet from sitting down for too long when I was doing her hair once...

It will now be forever known as peas and noodles in our house!

MyCatHatesEverybody · 03/10/2019 17:17

Arya but pour and war rhyme, well they do in my accent anyway.

I wonder if pork was a typo for poke?

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:17

Arya in my accent pour rhymes with war.

Grin How about iklboo's example?

notangelinajolie · 03/10/2019 17:18

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

But @Bluntness100 - it does Confused

puppyblues · 03/10/2019 17:18

My DH only realised its not 'a washed kettle never boils' at 32.

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:19

STORK = Rhymes with FORK

Yes, and FORK rhymes with PORK... Confused

Gruzinkerbell1 · 03/10/2019 17:19

Sitting here at my DDs swimming lesson whispering Pork and Stork to myself...

AryaStarkWolf · 03/10/2019 17:19

Arya but pour and war rhyme, well they do in my accent anyway.

haha in mine

Pour rhymes with wore and War rhymes with Thor,
Pour makes an "Oar" sound and War makes an Or sound

DadDadDad · 03/10/2019 17:20

If you think PORK doesn't rhyme STORK, you've got another thing coming. Wink

BertieDrapper · 03/10/2019 17:20

@windandme no she's not, although she was an Army Brat so could've spent some time in the West Country I don't know about!
Lol

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/10/2019 17:20

Pork and stork rhyme perfectly the way I say them.

@whiteivy - I love ‘ombleflope’!

I remember being very baffled when I was little and heard my dad talking to my mum about being paid his celery for work. I couldn’t see how that was any use! Blush

fizzyfizz · 03/10/2019 17:21

After birthday candles have been blown out, DS (3) shouts joyfully "pip it away"!