clunking english

[Maizie]

Well you both need to read Jack Winter's How I Met My Wife

 

[Arch]

S'funny you should say that.. we call it "toe-ast" (no idea why!) and fruit is "froo-it"

Um, I'd have thought it was just a literal pronounciation - to-ast, and fru-it...

Or do you mean you have no idea why you did that to start with. I guess a lot of words are like that when someone is starting to read - easier to split into small syllables than to work out vowel combinations...

 

[User482]

When I was a kid, the radiator was a "deedator". Stuck in my family for years.

 

[Arch]

Round at a friend's house over the weekend, her little girl (3) wanted 'claclamade' on her toast. Marmalade. I can sort of see it, but....

My sister couldn't get the hang of Susannah for ages, I was 'Agingah'. And later, at Christmas, when we sang Ding Dong Merrily on High, she thought the chorus ended "Susannah lives in Chelsea"

Nephew Oli has a few sort-of words - 'Dada', 'yes' (accompanied by whole body nod for emphasis), Mmmmmmmn (moon) and (always very quietly) Sssshooooes. I assume he associates the sh- sound with being quiet...

But I digress. I used to call elephants 'lefferants', and that's still used now...

 

[Fnaar]

Um, I'd have thought it was just a literal pronounciation - to-ast, and fru-it...

Or do you mean you have no idea why you did that to start with. I guess a lot of words are like that when someone is starting to read - easier to split into small syllables than to work out vowel combinations...

Yes, but I am 47 ...

 

[MajorMantra]

Or indeed Shevelled

Or couth.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Round at a friend's house over the weekend, her little girl (3) wanted 'claclamade' on her toast. Marmalade. I can sort of see it, but....

My sister couldn't get the hang of Susannah for ages, I was 'Agingah'. And later, at Christmas, when we sang Ding Dong Merrily on High, she thought the chorus ended "Susannah lives in Chelsea"

Nephew Oli has a few sort-of words - 'Dada', 'yes' (accompanied by whole body nod for emphasis), Mmmmmmmn (moon) and (always very quietly) Sssshooooes. I assume he associates the sh- sound with being quiet...

But I digress. I used to call elephants 'lefferants', and that's still used now...

she's obviously no clairvoyant then

 

[Arch]

she's obviously no clairvoyant then

I suppose there's still time, although I'm not sure I'd want to....

 

[swee'pea99]

Susannah lives in Chelsea is great!

My daughter wanted me to print off her Halloween party invite, which included the fact that they'd be going trickle treating.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I suppose there's still time, although I'm not sure I'd want to....

cue another arch-related elvis costello track…

 

[Arch]

cue another arch-related elvis costello track…

That's on my MP3 player, you know, and I'm always listening to that on the train when I go down to visit, so it's always true...

Except when I'm coming back.

It's a shame, it's not a song I feel I should teach him to sing at an early age, a bit... edgy.... I suppose the chorus is ok...