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.

[Vintagegoth]

I remember my Dad talking about the "London Waiting" he was paid for his job. I thought it was extra money for having to wait in traffic jams.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I am sitting here repeating or, Thor, pork, stork and war in my head in a variety of different accents, and I can ‘hear’ where @AryaStarkWolf is coming from, I think.

I do think, though, that as pork and stork both have ‘or’ in the middle, they are pronounced the same.

[MyCatHatesEverybody]

@bluntness may I ask what your accent is? I'm intrigued!

[Bluntness100]

Stork is pronounced like stawrk,

Pork is pronounced like pohrk,

No one says pawrk. 🤣

[OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg]

I think the Geordie accent for example would say pour differently (like two syllables?)

Nope, my DH is a Geordie and pork and stork sound the same (I've just asked him to say them both and he's now looking at me with suspicion).

[MyCatHatesEverybody]

I'm kind of imagining pork being pronounced as poo-erk or something similar, I wonder if I'm anywhere close?

[Bluntness100]

We are both Scottish, but no other Scot I know says pawrk, and I've lived in England on and off for 17 years and never heard an English person pronounce it like that either 😂

[Moosiclover]

My DD used to watch Mona the Vampire when she was little, but called it Mona the Bamfire

[MyCatHatesEverybody]

@OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg I was trying to channel Cheryl Tweedy Cole InsertNameHere when I was thinking about it, apologies!

[bunintheoven88]

Until about two weeks ago I thought the saying was,

'Give up the goat'

[DustyMaiden]

If you say I’ve got a bunged up nose, when you do indeed have a bunged up nose, it sounds like bummed up.

[NachoFries]

I actually thought Paddington Bear was a type of bear that lived in Lima, Peru

And until recently I thought Rawalpindi is something I made up in my sleep

[Littletabbyocelot]

I heard a lady sing baa baa black sheep to her grandson. Apparently the little boy lives down the drain.

And to the pp who ask, I only discovered on here that it isn't the jewels remain still gleaming

[Burlea]

My DD used to say 'chip chop' for the local chip shop.

[maggiecate]

A colleague giving a presentation said an event had been a damp squid. Asked afterwards if they meant damp squib. Cue dawning realisation on his face as suddenly it all made sense - he’d always wondered apparently because “Well, squids are usually damp aren’t they.”

[NachoFries]

When I was a kid I couldn’t Sylvester Stallone’s name properly. My siblings and I would pronounce it as “Silver Sister Loan”

[NearlyGranny]

I led a British Council trip to one of the (very) deep southern states of the US some years back and was introduced to and shown round by a lovely man called Dr Lark (I thought) and I thought what a charming, unusual name. When I clocked his office door sign, his name was plain Lock... I think the pork/stork thing might be similar? Stark vs pork?

[CandyLeBonBon]

I've now just been saying pork and stork in a Scottish accent and all of a sudden bluntness makes sense!

[BrownSauceOfCourse]

My husband is a bit of a Star Wars fan, but he still says Dar Vader.

He also informed me yesterday that he had an 'egg and crest' sandwich for lunch.

@Yogobo My children also think that 'several' means seven - they refuse to accept it isn't a specific number so I've given up arguing with them.


@Bluntness where is your accent from? In my accent all of the things you have said all sound the same. I'm struggling to imagine how they could be different.

[CustardySergeant]

Bluntness,

www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/pork

www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/stork

Do these differ from what you say?

[Wombleish]

@MyCatHatesEverybody Nope, I'm from the NE and pour and paw sound the same when I say them. Pork also rhymes with fork and stork.

[wellhelloyou]

Never mind all that. Try listening to the song Mercy by Duffy and not hearing "I'm begging you for birdseed"

[OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg]

I was at secondary school before I realised it wasn't "idledown" (eiderdown) - I thought it was something you lay under when you were being idle.

And it was literally only last year that I learned "segue" was actually the word I thought must be spelled "segway".

MyCat no apology necessary! (My DH said "why...?" and I just replied "Mumsnet" and he shrugged, said "should've guessed" and went back to his hobby playing on GarageBand.)

[iklboo]

I do think, though, that as pork and stork both have ‘or’ in the middle, they are pronounced the same.

Interesting. Do you pronounce 'boot' and 'look' with the same elongated 'oo' sound (genuine question - my folks do)?