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.

I thought the saying was ‘best thing since life’s bread’ until I was about that age

And just remembered another one. Paul Young ""every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you". Even though I (now) know it's an incorrect lyric I can't unhear

My DS when he was probably 20 told me he couldn't "be asked" to do something. When corrected, he insisted it was a saying. He also insisted that baby shampoo promotes no more tears (rips) rather than no more tears (crying), even after I pointed out the teardrop symbol it was written in. He would not have it. Bloody infuriating.

"every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you" Even though I (now) know it's an incorrect lyric I can't unhear

Same here!

I never understood why there was a song called Knights in White Satin until embarrassingly recently.

My sister only just realised it's not:
Depo (Deed poll)
Breaking an entry
Rest bite care

She's 31

My five year old says he’s “only cheesing” when he’s teasing us, and thinks ninjas are “minjas”

My daughter has always been full of these;
Trickle treating at Halloween
When someone drops glasses/plates she shouts 'slap the juggler' or once 'slap the joker'
She also thought lesbians were called legacies.

I remember a thread on here when a hapless poster was pulled up repeatedly for racism for correctly describing someone or something as niggardly.

Londoner here, pork and stork the same. They both end on "ork" how can they be pronounced differently?

Another one Dd used to say Marks Expensive for M&S

He also used to say "I was miffed" all the time. Meaning "I was confused/baffled/mystified".

Where I’m from, miffed means slightly annoyed/offended.

Stork and pork rhyme.

And I love “for all intensive purposes”!

Imonlymoominafterall I was confused by your post so Googled.

Oh.

Stork is pronounced like stawrk

Pork is pronounced like pohrk

“Stalk” is pronounced “stawrk”. “Stork” is pronounced to rhyme with “pork” 🤣🤣

My mum and I were walking through a shopping mall one day and she said she wanted to go into a shop to look at shoes...

Me "which shop doctor want to go into?"
Mum "that German shop... Doucheman"

Pissing myself laughing I had to correct her..

"Its DEICHMANN... and dont ever say that in public again!!" Lol

They both end on "ork" how can they be pronounced differently?

While I'm in the 'sound the same' camp over pork and stork I give you...work.

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

Good question, @iklboo - I don’t! . And fork and work are pronounced differently too. I’m beginning to think English might not be the most logical of languages!

Cross-posted with @OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg! Great minds....

My DD(8) refuses to believe that it's a banister, not a balancestair, nope she's not having it.

Of course we all know now that the correct term for the dessert formerly called Eaton Mess is “Brexit”

My dd still calls a cupboard a 'covered'. She's been corrected but can't quite get it right!

Friend at university thought antibiotics were called antibionics I thought it was a deliberate joke the first few times.

You don't sound pork and stork the same way! Pork has an o sound that isn't present in stork.

How the fuck do you say stork then? Stark? I'm so confused.

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

What the fuck??? Are you winding us up? They all sound the same. Is this just one big wind up? 

Feeling very put out by this madness.

I always thought the last line of Row, Row, Row Your Boat was “Life is butter cream”.

Also, until I was in my thirties I assumed that the ‘making spirits rise’ line in Jingle Bells was referring to spirits rising out of graves.

DH always says ‘cufflings’ for cuff links. I’m like “they aren’t the offspring of cuffs FFS!”