Auntie was a bit of a Mrs Malaprop.

My mother used to say immortal when she meant immoral.
E.g a woman in the neighbourhood was jailed for keeping an ''immortal""house.

When my mum was in her dementia days she told me the clouds were very peritutic

My Mum always says skellington and chimley, and my Nan used to as well, may be a Londoner thing.😄
( skeleton and chimney)

My neighbour suffered from painful asteroids
That could be very painful indeed 😂

One of my DD's had a sore on her head . When we bumped into a friend she asked what was the matter, the other DD said "Daddy says it's Anne Franks". She meant anthrax.

My mil used to talk about her Cotton Easter plant. She also fed her house plants with Baby Bibo (Bio)

My neighbour suffered from painful asteroids and had some supposetrees from the doctor.

Another friend thought her asthma was exasperated by pollen.

My friend wanted her daughter to go to that posh Catholic boarding school Stella Artois.

ExDancer

Mt MIL gave me clumps of her lavatory plant.
Big Louis - Mrs Malatrop was a Dickins character who mixed her words up - I forget which book.

Mrs Malaprop was from the play The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (written in 1775)
Sheridan was an MP for Stafford.

Not sure where Dickens comes into it as he wasn't born for another nearly 40 years 😃

I am reminded of an incident in one of the James Herriot books where he said their secretary took a message from a farmer and it said the animal had Smiling Harry Syphilis 😂

(Turned out it was swine erysipelas, a skin infection. The farmer pronounced it "arrysipelas" when James called him back.)

Correction Dickens rather than Dickins

It’s Mrs. Malaprop, rather than Malatrop, The character is from Sheridan’s play The Rivals & it’s Dickens rather than Dickinson. Otherwise spot on!

Mt MIL gave me clumps of her lavatory plant.
Big Louis - Mrs Malatrop was a Dickins character who mixed her words up - I forget which book.

My friend is a little like that Daddima I don’t t correct her, but my urge is to!

biglouis clue in the thread title.
My mother used to get Lebanese and lesbian mixed up.

What it says on the tin in the title, biglouis - just a bit of fun. Your auntie certainly sounds fun, Daddima!

This put me in mind of my MIL's version of hysterectomy. It was 'ectastretna'. We could never get her to pronounce it correctly.

I dont understand what this thread is supposed to be about.

Lovely! 😂😂