have we had this before?mum misprounouncemnts

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ia m sure we have

htings your mum mispronounces

my mum " tumbler dryer"

sister thought the co op was the coop for abotu 20 years.

the other word dh and I have trouble with is profiteroles because when his sister was waitressing someone ordered prof ee tof oloes. It has become a standing joke and I now have to really think before I say the word because I have an urge to say prof ee toff oloes in a strong dorset accent.

Merlin - one friend went on so much about her 'Muslim' squares when her baby was born, that we used to call them Osama's (probably not politically correct but she really used to go on and on!)

my dad gets lots of names wrong - Kylie Monologue is a good one (and he always then says 'you know, the one from Neighbours', - her singing success has completely passed him by...)

and when he wins the lottery he's going to ring us from Aca-poko. think he might mean Acapulco (?sp), just hope the travel agent understands him!

I sometimes buy a 'Ducky Lip' on a Saturday.

we went to a rest in Bristol where the bloke clales tiramsu
" tiramasalu"

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we have deffo done t his before
think i posted that too

My mum always calls Hounslow - Hunslow.
what abount skelington ? - my brother always said that when he was little

My dad has a catalogue of mis-saying rather than mispronouncements!

His most frequently quoted mis-saying is "im just going for a quick five minute half hour"

When DS1 born my mum was eager to run round "Toysaurous" & buy ,buy, buy. ( Dinosaurs we presumed!!) We had to slowly explain the real name of this fabulous toy shop. We still all talk about going to "Toysaurous" for birthdays & xmas.

My mum can't say 'help' - 'helmp' (wtf?) or 'minimalist' (the concept passes her by I reckon ).

Dd2 keeps pestering me for swimming goggles, but she calls them either boggles or gobbles!

my mum's friend died of cancer of the sarcophagus
{sad} for him i know, but v hard to keep a straight face when she told me

I tell you what I always thought when I was little? there was a big building with To Let written on it. I thought the I had been missed out and they were ToiLets. I was a bit loo obsessed as a child mind.

The woman across the road from us when I was growing up once said her daughter was inside "squatting" for her exams, and at one point when she was hanging around with a rough gang said it was just a "phrase" she was going through.

My mum mispronounces my name - she says "bit of a disappointment"

Once had a very funny speaker at a prize-giving evening in school who read out funny o-level quotes - the one I remember is :-

Queen Elizabeth never had any piece because Mary Queen of Scots was always hoovering in the background!!!

Still makes me giggle!!!

We still call things in our house by the names the children used to call them before they could pronounce them properly:

Sgapetti (spaghetti)
Salt and vigenar (salt and vinegar)
Clock clock (chocolate)
Mush mush (mushrooms)
Arsecream (icecream)

Children are now all grown up so we all sound a little bit silly!

I used to think that too about toilets!!!!

Also we have a factory place for fabrics near where we live and they are called "dyeing machines". I really believed thats where people went to die!!! We used to drive by on the bus and a chill went down my back when I was a child!!!

My Grandad has high colestrum and my Nan eats quish (or quaunch) while she sits on her terrapotta coloured settee.

I will never forget the poor 14 year old girl that stood up in my Biology class and declared that "Bacteria are single celled orgasms"

That sounds too embarassing to be true, but I swear it is. Her name was Sarah.

When I was quite little but could read a bit we were going to Slough to shop - this was a huge deal because we usually only went to Uxbridge - and I saw the word SLOW in the road and said oooh, we're there!

How they all laffed. How I

My MIL has some classics:
Bousin soft cheese : borskin - pmsl
kettle chips: ketlee crisps
chimney ; chimlee
chow mein : chow ming
noodles: noddles

Its the borskin one that gets me, whenever she says she has borskin on crackers I have to turn my back on her to hide my laughs!!

These are so great!

I'm going to print off this thread and give it to the interpreters on dh's project.

They'll love 'em!

my great aunt used to amuse the painter with her requests for durex paint