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Wrong and utterly stupid pronunciations...

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solonan Wed 03-Sep-14 13:26:12

Just saw this over on mumsnet and it did make me laugh. Al Paseeno? My dear old grandfather used to pronounce the z in Chez Fred his local fish and chip shop. Such a funny memory.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a2172634-Al-Pacino-has-ruined-my-day?msgid=49212042#49212042

rubysong Tue 21-Oct-14 11:56:54

A giraffe of wine.

Grannylin Mon 20-Oct-14 17:17:22

DD2 when small, after listening to her sister singing said 'Give her a round of the floors'!
DGS , this weekend after too long in his carseat, reckoned he had 'pins and noodles'

sherish Mon 20-Oct-14 16:34:27

My eldest daughter used to call fizzy pop, pissy pop. It used to make my mum laugh so much.

Nonu Mon 20-Oct-14 15:40:05

SUE, your post 3/9;1507.
Was reading in the weekend newspaper that they are bringing out a new series of MAPP & LUCIA, I am thrilled, as I used to love it when it was on in the 70"s

smile

Marmight Mon 20-Oct-14 04:31:00

My gs calls planes 'up there' as we point at them and say 'look, up there'.
i had an Uncle Cyril and for years, until I was quite old, thought his name was Squirrel.
A local lady, when recounting a story about the 'naughty boys' school' in our village, told me that the boys 'went on a ravage and decimated their dormobiles' .

annodomini Sun 19-Oct-14 20:10:23

We used to eat 'ambadade' and 'beeannos' when we were kids.

kalexie Sun 19-Oct-14 11:36:09

Our Daughter, when really young, couldn't get her tongue round "crisps" and used to call them pisses.

Whenever she had a bag she would say "do you want a p*ss?".

Icyalittle Wed 15-Oct-14 14:49:09

My bugbear is people who say 'pronounciation' - including a Speech Therapist I know....

Katek Wed 15-Oct-14 14:02:08

My DGS has always had his own vocabulary and even at 8 still says nooz for use and weeout for without. Some of his early words included ambleeance and binocleers. It hasn't helped having close family from Wick, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Lanarkshire!!

Katek Wed 15-Oct-14 12:10:58

Alygran....nice word for a conservatory where I live is a "sitootery"! (Sit-out-ery)

mrsmopp Sun 12-Oct-14 13:34:59

My MiL used to say, 'I'm losing my facilities now I'm getting older'.
Oh, I know that feeling!

Alygran Sat 11-Oct-14 21:22:44

Our favourite is probably country trees for conservatory from DGS aged 4!

acanthus Sat 11-Oct-14 20:54:54

One of my daughters had dyslexic tendencies when little (somehow grew out of it and is now a magazine editor!) and mis-read lots of labels - the family still refer to a certain tinned fish as 'Slid'.....

specki4eyes Fri 10-Oct-14 10:52:30

My honorary Mum always says "what the hair oil's that?" Always makes me smile.

mrsmopp Thu 09-Oct-14 22:56:54

My mum used to sound her aitches where there aren't any and struggled with the word 'iota'. She would say, 'I couldn't care one high hooter'.

I can remember Gordon Brown in his budget speech saying the price of cigarettes (or something) was going to be increased by one pence.

MiceElf Thu 09-Oct-14 20:10:43

I've just found this thread and thete are some gems here.

One of my favourites is a young child of my acquaintance who solemnly informed me that God's first name is Peter.

Because we say 'Thanks Peter God'.

And, dating from when our son was small, we still stack the pots in the doshwisher.

gran5up Thu 09-Oct-14 18:31:55

One child from Surrey rendered the hymn as,"There is a green hill Farnham way".Lovely!

HollyDaze Wed 24-Sep-14 18:00:51

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numberplease Wed 24-Sep-14 17:34:35

Ever since they first appeared on the scene, our family has always referred to Bucks Fizz with the first letters reversed!

Gagagran Wed 24-Sep-14 14:39:50

Should be "butterflies" not butterfiles!

Gagagran Wed 24-Sep-14 14:38:47

I was at a Macmillan coffee morning this morning when it started to rain really heavily.3-year old George announced "Oh no! We'll need our underellas". I think that's a better name for them!

DD always called butterfiles, flutterbies and again I prefer that as a very descriptive name!

HollyDaze Wed 24-Sep-14 13:42:18

When my husband was travelling abroad once, I asked him to pick up a bottle of Paloma Picasso for me from the duty free shop. He rang, whilst there, saying he'd looked on all the counters but couldn't see anything by Pamela Picasso - doesn't have quite the same ring somehow does it grin

whenim64 Wed 24-Sep-14 10:01:17

My mum went to see 'Lezz Miserabulls' with the WI. grin

hildajenniJ Wed 24-Sep-14 09:32:47

Just read a post on facebook from a friend of mine about her DD, she referred to her continual chatter as "purple diarrhoea". I', assuming she meant verbal diarrhoea.
When my DD was little she used to like pillarcatters.

Katek Wed 24-Sep-14 08:48:41

My dd once said to DGS 'you're such a comedian.' His reply?
"Don't be stupid mummy, if I was a comedian my tongue would stretch to the other side of the room!"