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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @BenCotto  I always thought it was B for Tea.  My grandad was a cockney born in Clapham.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @BenCotto  Oops - just saw one of your later posts re the alphabet.
    Cheers
    Tui
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    When it become apparent that my youngest grandson was going to say ‘w’ instead of ‘r’ his parents and teachers got him out of it, he’s 12 now and not a sign,  it can be done. Don’t think she resorted to the cupboard method 😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My son said 'w' instead of 'r' .... bit of a problem for him as his name began with .... R

    bless him .... he got the hang of it eventually 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I can still here our Ben calling Woland from the garden to play with him. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited September 2020
    Rhotacism. I love the lines in ‘Life of Brian’ 
    ”He ranks as high as any man in Rome .... Stwike him centuwion, very woughly.”
    Rutland, England
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Our friend's granddaughter is Iris.  She tried very hard to say it correctly, but even when forcing the letters out by nodding her head hard when she said it, it continued to be Iwis until she was about 4 years old.
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    When my granddaughter was born the staff at her 2 year old brother's day care asked my daughter if she'd really called the new baby "Fear". She is actually called Thea!
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    We spent ages on a flight looking for something beginning with W.  We finally gave up and my daughter said,  look down there mummy cars on the woad.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Windows😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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