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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My father had a terrific sense of humour and would deliberately mispronounce certain words to wind up his fancy-pants daughters. "Patio" became "pay-tio", that kind of thing. But one word in particular has entered the family lexicon: "gnome", pronounced "ganOmee". Not meaning a garden ornament, but a young man of dubious moral/intellectual qualities. Our boyfriends were almost always declared gnomes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I do this all the time. My son used to roll his eyes, but now he joins in, asking his grandmother for a "fork and ka-nife" or saying "I can do that, it's my pierogi-tive"