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.

Apparently there are more than a few adults on MN who think the word is restbite.

Dad was on hospital - what mum meant to say (loudly on the ward) was ‘it’s a congenital ailment you know’. She forgot the ‘con’...

DD thought "qualms" was pronounced "qual-ums" until she was 22. She had only ever seen it written, or hadn't connected the two things, and that was how she heard it in her head.

One of my clan thinks animals are called aminals and to be fair i have to stop and think what they are called.

"I can see clearly now Lorraine has gone.."

@fronttoback That’s gold 😂

There was a brilliant spoof "Our Tune" of "I can see Deirdre now that Lorraine has gone"

In my West Country sound like a pirate accent Pork & Stork sound the same. All my R sounds are long

Can't fathom how they don't sound the same

Armitage Shanks

Few years ago, son away at university, called for recipe for cornby???
Corn? Corn on the cob?
No, cornby, cornby fash.
Corned beef hash.
How he went on to get a first astounds me.

My dd, also at university thought the well known Harper Lee book was Tequila Mockingbird. Thank god it wasn't on her English lit syllabus

My work colleague didn’t know where eggs came from. She thought they were made in a factory.

Oh and a colleague from the job before that used to sing along to every song on the radio with what she thought were the lyrics but didn’t even make sense. In one song “party all the time” became “fanny on a church”.

It's taken my son about three years to accept that the word "rant" does not rhyme with "aunt" or "can't". His argument was that we aren't "northern" and compared it with our pronunciation of words like bath, grass and plant. He's now at uni, but when he's home and I happen to have clean underwear to return to him, I always say "here are your pahnts"

My MIL says ‘dacorations’ instead of decorations. It's incredibly annoying as we have corrected her numerous times.

an old boyfriend suggested we go to Jollyons for cup of coffee, it turned out to be Jo Lyons

When I was young I thought 'to make ends meet' was to make hens meat

I as a very young child I also used to say buggered instead of cupboard!

My dd used to say "eloctrofied" instead of "electrocuted".

I always thought in the rhyme baa baa black sheep that the little boy lived down the drain. I always imagined his little head popping up and the bag of wool making it more comfortable for him down the drain.

My 6 year old can't say watermelon, only waterlemon. It's so cute though!
Our eldest came out of school one day saying they had made her eat lemon and she didn't like it but they made her try it. I was a bit annoyed until we deduced it was melon and not lemon

• Few years ago, son away at university, called for recipe for cornby??? Corn? Corn on the cob? No, cornby, cornby fash. Corned beef hash. How he went on to get a first astounds me.* My favourite one

Haha my daughter thought that Eton mess was eaten mess.....

My grandma, after perusing the dessert menu when we were out in a restaurant, told the waiter she'd like ' the portfolios please!'

(She meant profiteroles)

My grandma use To say ‘i want never gets’ when I would say I wanted a biscuit

I use to think she said I will never forget

So I’d respond back and say ‘I will never forget my biscuit’ thinking these were the magic words to get me a biscuit out of the squirrel shaped biscuit barrel !