Malapropisms

[Buce]

 

When my mother-in-law visits, if you can ignore the overt racism and homophobia, there is endless fun to be had listening to her malapropisms.

 

Just last night we had balaclavas (baklava - a Middle Eastern sweet pastry); Flamingo dancing (flamenco); a pigment of the imagination; a wolf in cheap clothing; and, finally, (my personal favourite) she described someone as an escaped goat (scapegoat).

 

Does anyone else know someone like this?

Edited 14 October 2021 by Buce

[Facecloth]

My mums partner always calls Covid Covin.

 

Not like its been in the news everyday for the past 2 years for him to nail down the pronunciation.

Edited 14 October 2021 by Facecloth

[Dunge]

22 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

When my mother-in-law visits, if you can ignore the overt racism and homophobia, there is endless fun to had listening to her malapropisms.

 

Just last night we had balaclavas (baklava - a Middle Eastern sweet pastry); Flamingo dancing (flamenco); a pigment of the imagination; a wolf in cheap clothing; and, finally, (my personal favourite) she described someone as an escaped goat (scapegoat).

 

Does anyone else know someone like this?

I can be guilty of half-guessing a long word to use sometimes.

It can be really flaucinaucinihilipilification.

 

I’m loving “a wolf in cheap clothing” though. I’m going to use that myself. 

[Houdini Logic]

Mataland

[ozleicester]

 

[urban.spaceman]

My grandma asked me about this local band performing at Vicky Park were - “who’s Casa Bian?”

 

She also once asked me why she keeps getting emails from LinkyDin.

[String fellow]

Three 'pacific' ones spring to mind, two of them from Corrie's Hilda Ogden. The world's your lobster, chuck. Also, she boasted about the 'muriel' on her living room wall. A friend of mine insists on calling Cov-19 'coronavitis'.  

[Saxondale]

Not that I’m easily wound up or anything, but I get furious at people using the phrase ‘spitting feathers’ to mean that they’re angry, when it means thirsty.

[Parafox]

When my late mum got irritated she'd say she felt like doing the "flandango".

[drumbeat]

I like 'flandango'. I might well use it myself. A right flandango.

 

My mum used to mispronounce the name of a neighbouring town. So weird. Not like she didn't hear it said often enough. She either heard it that way every time, or was unable to pronounce it, or was dead convinced she was right.... or was just having some weird, personal joke with herself. No idea.

[drumbeat]

Thinking about it, 'a wolf in cheap clothing' works in almost the same way, and I kinda like the twist it brings. Think of cheap clothes as see through, and/or as offering no real disguise. 

[davieG]

22 minutes ago, drumbeat said:

Thinking about it, 'a wolf in cheap clothing' works in almost the same way, and I kinda like the twist it brings. Think of cheap clothes as see through, and/or as offering no real disguise. 

Or some guy dressed in full Primark attire trying to chat up a posh woman shopping in Harrods.

[Jattdogg]

What's all this malala-pro-pissonem's about?

[Tommy G]

My father in law consistently called Kalvin Phillips ......Kevin Phillip...... during the Euro's, did my head in despite remionding him he got both names wrong.

[Lcfcbisto]

My brother in law does this all the time. 
He always says not the brightest tool in the box.

and making a molehill out of a mountain. 

[Electric Yetis]

My dad.

 

Matt Le Tissler

Milaynium dome

Christian Fooch

Wesley Fo phone her

 

[SecretPro]

3 hours ago, Buce said:

 

When my mother-in-law visits, if you can ignore the overt racism and homophobia, there is endless fun to be had listening to her malapropisms.

 

Just last night we had balaclavas (baklava - a Middle Eastern sweet pastry); Flamingo dancing (flamenco); a pigment of the imagination; a wolf in cheap clothing; and, finally, (my personal favourite) she described someone as an escaped goat (scapegoat).

 

Does anyone else know someone like this?

My parents in a nutshell. Including the Racism.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

2 hours ago, Parafox said:

When my late mum got irritated she'd say she felt like doing the "flandango".

Were there thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening?

[RonnieTodger]

Leicester fans are shocking. 

 

The amount of people I've heard say "Nuhdiddeh" when they mean Ndidi. 

[James.]

My Dad often claims not to be racialist.

[MPH]

1 minute ago, James. said:

My Dad often claims not to be racialist.

 

I believe that’s still actually a word…

[lcfc278]

15 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Leicester fans are shocking. 

 

The amount of people I've heard say "Nuhdiddeh" when they mean Ndidi. 

I've literally never heard any Leicester fan mispronounce his name. Other fans yes but not our own.

[RonnieTodger]

4 minutes ago, lcfc278 said:

I've literally never heard any Leicester fan mispronounce his name. Other fans yes but not our own.

Radio Leicester is rife for it and so are fans over 60. Same goes for "Innyacho". 

[lcfc278]

2 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Radio Leicester is rife for it and so are fans over 60. Same goes for "Innyacho". 

The Iheanacho one gets my goat, it's not even a difficult name to pronounce!

[Greg2607]

my nan told me once about a day trip she took to Liverpool.  All of the houses and streets up there were boarded up and Dialect apparently. 

 

i'm also 39.  and for 39 years she has used the word "congratulions" in every single birthday card. 

 

She also still can't pronounce / remember my kids names.  They are 11 and 12! lol.