My dad used to do this thing where he would pronounce any word ending in 'es' to 'EZ' so an innocuous work like 'plates' became 'plat-EZ'. He extended this over time to any word with a plural so 'roads' for example became 'road-EZ'. According to family lore, this started at a terrible Italian restaurant before I was born.

At increasing levels of my age I saw this as:

baby - 5: This is clearly normal adult behaviour
5 - 8: My dad is a comedy genius
9 - 12: Alright, stop it now
12+: Genuinely considering patricide.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks to my sister in law, I've spent years referring to tomato ketchup as dip dip.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We call clutter/hoarding Trebus, or treebs, after Mr Trebus from Life of Grime. It's passed down to my sisters' kids as well, so his name will forever live on in our family.

[–] Finnbot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Brilliant!

[–] DharmaCurious@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Super weird one. Produce bags from the grocery store are called "gnome bags."

Years ago, we found out that Walmart does not mind if you just take a whole roll of those bags. We use them instead of zip locks, sandwich baggies, Saran wrap, and dog poo bags. They became "gnome" bags because we had an old toilet paper roll holder in the shape of a gnome that we hung up to hold the roll of bags, and we all just started calling them gnome bags until it got to the point where we'll occasionally say it in public accidently. Lol.

[–] Finnbot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is exactly the kind of shit I wanted to hear l. Love it lmao!

[–] DharmaCurious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, remembered another, too. To irritate people me and my brother both, whenever we hear someone arguing how to pronounce "gif," we insist it should be pronounced Zsif. Like zsa zsa Gabor's first name. If you're familiar with Linux, there's a thing about whether the DE gnome should be pronounced guh-nome or nome. I'll pronounce it with a glottal stop at the beginning instead, and it drives people insane. (If you're unfamiliar with glottal stop, think of the way some northern England accents pronounce the t in water. "wa?er")

[–] FelipeFelop@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have a habit of mispronouncing things on purpose for comedy effect. (no one laughs but us) So Sa-lid instead of salad. Chocolit instead of chocolate Wh-ind-oww instead of Window (think Stewie from Family Guy and how he says Cool Whip)

[–] Finnbot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But…as a Scottish person that’s how we pronounce salad and chocolate!

My wife (from the highlands) is constantly ripping my central belt accent. Like all the fucken time. She finds it awfully hilarious for a Teuchter. Not got a leg to stand on that lot! Her favourites are how I pronounce milk (mulk - I used to get a cuff round the ear from my maw for that, so I kept using it out of spite) and beard (baird apparently it sounds like).

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fellow Scot here. Off tae the pictures to see a fillum the day.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is hilarious. Movies are called 'fillum' in India as well. It's practically a word in Hindi.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gujarati too. All my rellies who grew up in India say fillum. After dating an Irishman for more years than I care to remember, it's funny how much Indians and Irish have in common (we keep the plastic on everything too).

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly, in southern India (below Maharashtra & MP) they're called 'fillim' .

"the plastic on everything" is too real. Do they also store away plastic bags in one plastic bag and stuff that bag behind some door?

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we have a bag of bags lol In fact I have some old bags under my mattress! I don't really use them anymore since I moved to reusables.

One thing I don't think the Irish do is keep a suitcase of fabric under the bed/on top of a wardrobe.

There was a good sketch about it on Goodness Gracious Me, the "Bharrat Homes" one. Too true!