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Does anyone else have a relative or friend who say the wrong thing?
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My nan is great but she get's names muddled up. She asked the bakery for a quicky when she wanted a quiche.
Asked for the condoms when she meant condiments.Calls a jacuzzi a kakoozi . Little thing's bless her she comes out with make me laugh.
ALso kids say funny thing's to show you up in public, i tried to help my niece down the stairs on the bus once
she shouted out loud i can do it myself you know i'm not handicapped ( it was a full bus )
Have you any funny little thing's to share ? thanks
Asked for the condoms when she meant condiments.Calls a jacuzzi a kakoozi . Little thing's bless her she comes out with make me laugh.
ALso kids say funny thing's to show you up in public, i tried to help my niece down the stairs on the bus once
she shouted out loud i can do it myself you know i'm not handicapped ( it was a full bus )
Have you any funny little thing's to share ? thanks
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my brother insisted he could memorise me.
i said i'm sure there is no need - you rarely forget a sibling!
even when i explained he meant mesmerised, he wouldn't have it -
i eventually had to explain what both memorise and mesmerise meant, and that a guy named mesmer, a famous hypnotist, was the reason this word exists.
he also, attempting to be snooty, said in front of people he was showing off to 'oh i love listening to wagner' ...
... pronounced wag-ner not 'vargner' - all the other snooties just smirked.
incidentally inej, bit of trivia, the word for what your nan does is malapropism - named after a character in a book who said a lot of them.
similar is things like saying bixing mowl instead of mixing bowl is a spoonerism - again named after a bloke who said them a lot.
i said i'm sure there is no need - you rarely forget a sibling!
even when i explained he meant mesmerised, he wouldn't have it -
i eventually had to explain what both memorise and mesmerise meant, and that a guy named mesmer, a famous hypnotist, was the reason this word exists.
he also, attempting to be snooty, said in front of people he was showing off to 'oh i love listening to wagner' ...
... pronounced wag-ner not 'vargner' - all the other snooties just smirked.
incidentally inej, bit of trivia, the word for what your nan does is malapropism - named after a character in a book who said a lot of them.
similar is things like saying bixing mowl instead of mixing bowl is a spoonerism - again named after a bloke who said them a lot.
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Oh I could write a book on the funny things my mum used to come out with. Bless her..
The ones that will go down in our family histoy are:
On phoning Homebase to see if they did dildo in 6 foot lengths. (she meant dado rail!!). And the time she was having a new fence she phoned the fencer and asked if he did "erections". She was absolutely priceless.
The ones that will go down in our family histoy are:
On phoning Homebase to see if they did dildo in 6 foot lengths. (she meant dado rail!!). And the time she was having a new fence she phoned the fencer and asked if he did "erections". She was absolutely priceless.
My dad used to buy furniture from MI5 too, Dotty! oh and joko ~ my dad was once looking for a Wagner LP in a record store..looking in the 'V' section....
My daughter was once sitting there staring into space. When I asked her what she was doing she replied ''I'm hibernating'' when of course she meant to say 'meditating'.
My mother in law insists on calling a prostate a 'prostrate'
When I was little, my nan was reading to me from the newspaper & proceeded to tell me that some people had died in Chaso. I asked her where Chaso was and she replied ''Switzerland''. When I looked at the story I discovered that she was referring to a headline 'Hundreds injured in Chaos'..apparently due to an avalanche in Switzerland.
My daughter was once sitting there staring into space. When I asked her what she was doing she replied ''I'm hibernating'' when of course she meant to say 'meditating'.
My mother in law insists on calling a prostate a 'prostrate'
When I was little, my nan was reading to me from the newspaper & proceeded to tell me that some people had died in Chaso. I asked her where Chaso was and she replied ''Switzerland''. When I looked at the story I discovered that she was referring to a headline 'Hundreds injured in Chaos'..apparently due to an avalanche in Switzerland.
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