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If you blow a raspberry...how would you spell it?

35 replies

nobodysfool · 21/06/2009 09:51

Please help it is bugging me and a group of friends.
(bet your blowing one now)

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squeaver · 21/06/2009 09:52

[raspberry]

HTH

hocuspontas · 21/06/2009 09:52

Definitely start with a th..

nobodysfool · 21/06/2009 09:53

Squeaver- that's a cop out!
Hocusponta-and the rest???

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Lulumama · 21/06/2009 09:54

pffffffft

nobodysfool · 21/06/2009 09:55

like it lulmama.

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NorbertDentressangle · 21/06/2009 09:56

lulu -that sounds more like a wet fart. A quiet but deadly one

Lulumama · 21/06/2009 09:58

like i would ever make a disgusting sound !

how very dare you!

nobodysfool · 21/06/2009 09:58

lol.

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hocuspontas · 21/06/2009 10:00

thhhhffffffffttttttttt

NorbertDentressangle · 21/06/2009 10:01

I'm sure that you're far too ladylike to ever fart Lulu .

Its actually based on the farts my eldery cat makes when shes asleep next to you on the sofa. She can empty a room

piprabbit · 21/06/2009 10:08

Pwwwwww - on a rising note. If course that's based on raspberrying with pursed lips, if you go for the wet tongue approach instead then it's probably more of a thhhhhhhh. Which raises the question - just how many different ways are there to blow a raspberry?

DisturbinglySexuallyInactive · 21/06/2009 10:27

there's definitely a b or two in there

pthbthhhhh?

nobodysfool · 21/06/2009 16:23

all good attempts any more?

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HecatesTwopenceworth · 21/06/2009 16:26

Plllllllrrrrlllllrrrrllllrrrrllll

My husband is giving me the weirdest look I have now told him that I am trying to work out how to spell the noise of a raspberry and he's done his Bloody Mumsnet face.

HecatesTwopenceworth · 21/06/2009 16:26

Oh that's the tongue out raspberry btw.

purepurple · 21/06/2009 16:31

according to wikipedia it means raspberry tart, rhyming slang for fart

don't know how to spell it though

BitOfFun · 21/06/2009 16:41

Thuppppppppppppppppppprrr

wuglet · 21/06/2009 16:43

ppttttttlllllhhhh

Celery · 21/06/2009 16:44

I spell it pthppppthppth

nobodysfool · 21/06/2009 18:59

My very clever MIL has sent me this...

There are multiple spellings, generally with at least one letter repeated several times in a row to show that the sound is drawn out. Sometimes hyphens are used between these letters.

TTTTHPBT! or T-T-THPT! for example

"Th" is almost always included, which makes sense, since that's the primary sound of a blown raspberry. I have no idea if there is actually an official spelling.

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pruneplus2 · 18/09/2009 13:52

RASP!

It worked in the Beano. I always knew when Dennis the Menace was blowing a raspberry.

streakybacon · 19/09/2009 07:53

I'm enjoying the image of loads of Mumsnetters sitting at their keyboards and blowing raspberries, then trying to work out how to spell it. Delightful [rasp]

Besom · 19/09/2009 08:09

My 16 month old dd is laughing very hard at me and saying 'again, again!'

Thththththththththththffffppppt!!!

Jacksmama · 06/11/2009 00:13

BRRRRRRRRRRPP!!!

alwayslookingforanswers · 06/11/2009 00:16

oooo - we've one of these threads before (actually possibly many times)