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.
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'
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
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' .
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!!
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'.....
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!
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
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.
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!"