It really gets up my goat!

I was thinking the same as Aka

Are you sure there aren't ten of you Greatnan

There is considerably less of me since I started walking!

You finding it difficult to sleep Petallus?

How did you guess?

I don't sleep well but actually it wasn't to bad last night. I slept from 10 - 2 and then 4- 6.

too

See, that's what the grammar police do, make the rest of us terrified that if we do a typo it will be assumed we can't spell.

Con*trov*ersy
Dayity
Nefew
Meegrain
Ishoo
Ett

Late lamented MIL:

was convinced the local Japanese car dealership sold Mitsuboobies,

drank semiskilled milk,

and was very sorry for people who suffered from osteopsoriasis.

Not sure why trov hasn't appeared in bold.

petallus two funny

Jewlery
Nucular

grumppa

A friend was in hospital last week for investigations on her gall bladder. I saw a mutual friend on Friday who told me that she had had the operation and they had managed to do it with fibre optics, not the traditional cutting open method! (I think she meant keyhole but didn't like to suggest that!)

My grandmother returned from one of her many trips to the USA and told us all that a friend of her daughter had been 'bugged' and her purse had been stolen.

I'll bet she was bugged!

The same grandmother, after a flood in her house, told me she had had 'one of those dehumanisers' installed to dry the place out.

Gaga it's a good job you didn't correct your friend - she was right!

There are some words that I just can't get to grips with, no matter how many times I double-check their meaning / spelling.

For instance, I daren't name a certain station in London without a very long pause to check I'm not about to call it "St Pancreas".
Heaven help me if I ever need an operation on my "pancras"!

I have a distinctly northern accent, and my two granddaughters speak very nicely..... When I say "books", I say it like "books.They always correct me.Its not booowks, Grandma, its bucks. Same thing happens with "cooks" ...Correction; "cucks" if you know what I mean......
er sorry, cuwks, as I pronounce it.

I have a problem with the word custaad and other words, being a geordie my children remind me its custard

As a Yorkshirewoman with the appropriate accent, living in Queensland, my kids never noticed I had a different accent. They couldn't understand how strangers knew I was from England. They both have Australian accents of course, but the funny thing is, the eldest speaks 'posh' Australian. He's a high school teacher now, but he's talked like that all his life. Don't know why - there is no way he got it from me or his Dad!! Someone once asked me why he had a North Shore accent - apparently Sydney's North Shore is where the upper crust Aussies live. Mystery.

I do notice trends in different ways of speaking. 'Australia' is becoming 'Australiaaaa' by some news readers. I hope it soon passes.

This might set a dangerous new president!

How do you pronounce 'vase'?
Vayze,
Vauze
or Vaaze?
The last for me.

Same for me

Aged aunt suffered from arthuritis and also took warphine !

A woman I visited at home said she would get out more if she didn't have acraflavia!

Artheritis
Mischeeveeus
Xer-ray

I find them amusing rather than irritating, but perhaps that's being patronising