Words "inherited" from your Mum and Dad or

[bobg]

"caught" from your children.

I was talking about this with Mrs BG the other night and wondered whether we were loonies or are there others out there

For example I still use "pillar box", "snobs" ( shoe repairer for the youngsters on here" bioscope and make make occasional reference to Mr Chad, Lobby Ludd , juckler (dog) etc. the list is endless.

Mrs BG and I have absorbed confactory ( conservatory) extrawbed ( for upset, telling bone (phone) plus many others from our kids when they were learning to speak many years ago. Its easy to slip up and use them in adult company too.

I'd be interested in contributions , if there are any. If there aren't then I didnt write this post, my password was hijacked.......

 

[PBancroft]

I can't believe I'm admitting this.

At the moment I'm in the middle of tiling the cloakroom, and the old man is helping. The wife has noted on several occasions that I have a habit of picking up his mannerisms when I'm near him for a while.

The last few days have been a glut of "Oh dear"s, strange whistling sounds and hurrumphs. I even called the wife "floss" at one point, which is my mum's nickname.

Oh dear...

 

[bobg]

Slippery slope KP, 20 years and you'll be him....... Its unavoidable

 

[summerdays]

There are some words that come from my parents that I don't use too often but are still there: gutties (daps), heel of a loaf, shade (parting in hair), hot-press!!! and loads I probably use but can't think of at the moment.

The most disputed one in our household is whether I use the local vernacular: "Where's that to?", we think that I only use it when I'm with local Bristolians. Its certainly not a concious decision to use it.

 

[bobg]

Talking of local dialects "Ooh ay laa" from my 18 year old born here . Anathama... for a cockney kid like me.
Interesting ones there Summerdays, I've only heard of the "heel" one. Parting was a fleapath for me

 

[Baggy]

Myther
A bad hand (a doorstep sandwich)
Does she heck as like

There a lots more, but I can't think of any at the moment...

 

[Arch]

You know those things offically called 'sponge cloths' - sort of dense foam squares used for mopping up and wiping, with a smooth side and a waffley side. They come in about 4 colours, but back in the 70's they were I think predominantly yellow. Mum kept one by the sink to wipe the draining board. One day, having knocked over a cup of something, my Mum, in a hurry to mop it up before it spread, called out "Quick, get me the yellow thing". And Yellow Thing they have been since, no matter what actual colour they are.

 

[ComedyPilot]

From my dad's side of the family I pronounce the word year like this: yerr.

My colleagues at work find it amusing as they all say y-ere

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

"Teesded Toe Cakes" after an accidental spoonerism in cafe.......

 

[Speicher]

From my niece I picked up "pimming" instead of swimming.
Similarly poons instead of spoon, and ickle (small) and ick (nauseaous).

 

[Arch]

"Teesded Toe Cakes" after an accidental spoonerism in cafe.......

Hell, I'm stuck with that one now - brilliant!

 

[bobg]

Hell, I'm stuck with that one now - brilliant!

Yeah, love it!!

Hyperdemic nurdle does it for me Arch.......

 

[meenaghman]

My 5 year old spent a long time asking me the difference between jets and planes with 'repellers'. I can remember my sister talking about esgetti (Spaghetti). My daughter really liked the cock porn at the movies when she was about 4 !!!

 

[beanzontoast]

"Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!"

Thanks for that one, dad!

 

[doodles]

One of my boys was always being told to " Go and get in your dressing gown" which then ended up being called a "dressin gettin" so even to this day we go and get into our dressin gettins in the evening!!