have we had this before?mum misprounouncemnts

[wallopyCOD]

ia m sure we have

htings your mum mispronounces

my mum " tumbler dryer"

I'm sure there have been LOADS of threads like this!! Couldn't you have just searched the archives Cod?? Tut.

my sil says reach instead of retch (as in gagging, wanting to throw up. "Oh, it made me reach!). She seems to 'reach' quite often.

Also, she & fil always say their past tense incorrectly - We was going to town. What was you doing etc etc. I spend the next 2 months trying to correct my childrens' english after they've visited. really drives me mad.

ernest, while we're on your ILs, look here

omg janh you are a star! hope she appreciates it. that's 1 Christmas pressie sorted! thank you so much!

My mum bought my dd a new crunchie for Brownies the other day, you know she said, for in her hair, suddenly the penny dropped she meant scrunchie.

I just remembered one. my granny in law - when her sister died we all paid for some trees to be planted in her memory, a copse in fact.
whenever we take her to go and see them she always says that she is going to see her sister's corpse.... me and dh are just POSL.

MY Mum calls IKEA as follows:

IK (as in Mick) EEE AAA

as if its 3 seperate words.

She also calls soft tops/convertibles "cars with vinyl roofs"!

My uncle calls canapes (food nibbles) "canaps"

My parents call estate cars - shooting brakes, some 60's term apparently.

I once heard a lady in a shop asking for some "Pott Puree" - she meant pot pourri! I quite like that one.