Old People Talk Bollocks"My Gran calls the remote control The Wisher" writes Kim, "and LA Law, Lah Law." Do you know any old people? Are they as inventive or creatively befuddled as this?
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Fraser has joined the Moomins., Thu 11 Mar 2004, 13:38)
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As long as I can remember......my dear mom (now 70) has always transposed the 'm's and 'n's when she mentions "aluminum" (or "aluminium" to most of you other b3tans - we're Canadian, y'see)...so it comes out "alunimun". My brother has tried to get her to sound it out properly, syllable-by-syllable, to no avail. Also, my late dad pronounced Mexican food items with flat vowel sounds, such as "TAA-co" and "burr-IT-oh", and would often make vague requests of us such as "go fetch me the whatchacallit; it's right on top of the thing over there".
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