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To wonder how my dd got to 14 thinking this was the real phrase?

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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

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VirginWestCoast · 29/05/2020 23:55

Have only just realised that the lyrics to Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" are
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers

Not

Your own personal Jesus
Someone to feel your breasts

I have sung that quite a lot (in front of quite a lot of people actually). I guess that hearing prayers is a more Jesus thing to do really.

Gammeldragz · 30/05/2020 00:19

@Imonlymoominafterall

I never understood why there was a song called Knights in White Satin until embarrassingly recently.
I didn't get this and had to Google it. Showed DH (music buff) and he said no it's definitely Knights, (googled again) - he says Google isn't always right and he's definitely seen it on the album... This song was played at my Uncle's funeral, I was so sure it was Knights. Never questioned why they were wearing satin though...
ladykuga · 30/05/2020 01:11

My 6 year old dd thinks she's Beyonce. In between my tears of laugher I had to point out that the lyrics are "All the single ladies" and not "I'm a single letter". 😂

TimeWastingButFun · 30/05/2020 01:29

Our gardener calls the rhododendrons 'ruddydemdruns' 😂

Heathcliff27 · 30/05/2020 01:37

My mum always told the story about my auntie when they were little. Saying grace before mealtimes my auntie thought Amen was Ham In and it meant you were now allowed to start eating

IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone · 30/05/2020 12:49

My daughter used to say 'Har men' of amen 😂

IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone · 30/05/2020 12:49

And my middle one used to say 'an dem' 😂

CatRamsey · 30/05/2020 13:18

When I was a kid:
Photo albun
Reorkshire pudding
Clift (instead of cliff)

Only since reading mumsnet recently have I realised its 'respite' not 'rest bite'

I have friend who's 30 who keeps saying she feels like she's under so much 'pure pressure'... I'm not sure if she means peer pressure or if pure pressure is a thing? She also says Chester draws instead of chest of draws.

Oh and I've always said wardrope!

CatRamsey · 30/05/2020 13:23

Ooh I remembered another
When my brother was really little in school he started singing a song about the tiny tupples that come out at Easter time.

He meant tadpoles.

keeprocking · 29/10/2020 21:56

I'm having a lazy trawl through some Classis threads and found this.
A pupil called the hypotenuse as Harry Potter's Pubes and every subsequent year when I introduced the word I had to stop myself laughing.
Until one of them died I never knew that INXS wasn't Inks.
Helicopters were jellyhoppers when the children were small, I still use it and they're in their 40s.
My father always said pre-stinked for precinct and would never be corrected.
In the NW chimneys were almost always chimbleys.
A question in a pub quiz was about King Edward the eleventh.
Vive les differences, they make us interesting!

CanSomeoneElsePickMyName · 01/11/2020 09:12

Brilliant! I mean I don't often use the word 'hypotenuse' in daily life but if it ever does come up then I will think of this post!

Monkeyseesmonkeydoesnt · 07/11/2020 20:10

My 4yr old calls footprints "poomfrints"
I think it's adorable

MyMistakeToMake · 22/11/2020 21:37

@Monkeyseesmonkeydoesnt

My 4yr old calls footprints "poomfrints" I think it's adorable
That's so cute
Sideorderofchips · 29/11/2020 17:24

Myy son used to call Santa 'satan' when he was little. I have a video of him looking at a picture of santa saying 'awww.... Satan...'

MyMistakeToMake · 29/11/2020 22:05

@Sideorderofchips

Myy son used to call Santa 'satan' when he was little. I have a video of him looking at a picture of santa saying 'awww.... Satan...'
🤣🤣
GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 16/01/2021 08:18

I love the way someone’s little Gds called the little person in the manger (she’d knitted a Nativity set) was Baby Cheeses.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 16/01/2021 08:19

And my little Gdd was so excited about Farmer Christmas coming.

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