This is probably the most egregious of all in-law gaffes. An acquaintance of mine told me a story about a friend of his, from Barnsley, Yorkshire, who for his sins ended up marrying a Swiss-German girl. He had been working as an EFL teacher there, you see, and eventually responded to parental pressure to bring his new wife home to Barnsley to meet them. On arrival, the proud mam-in-law asked her new relative "You must be tired love--'ave you 'ad a long journey?"
To which the young ingenue replied (copying her husband) "Yes--I am ferkin nakkurred..."
I don't know what happened after that, but one can imagine relations were a bit fractious for a while.
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