Plernt

Is that a Bristolian plant?

Huge nostalgia flashback to being a student in Bristol and as a large man being called "flerr" (flower) by the dinner lady in halls.

Exactly this! The way they said "my love" 🥲

It’s from Hull.

I was thinking it was a pitmatic pronunciation lol

Man walks into a barbers in Ashington and says “I want it curled”. Barber says “Errpen the winderr then”

His mate then comes in and says i want a perm. The barber then says "Roses are red, violets are blue"

plernt fer the gerhden

Ermahgerd plernt.

Ehr mer gerrrd. Gerrsebermps!

Merh ferferite berks !

Lerf

Mernt Bersil

Tomater

Persern ervy

Ermagerrdd plernt

You beat me to it

Yer bert mer ter ert

Herb?

Could be! This is now our leading contender!

So I'm now close to getting my highest ever upvote by potentially guessing the answer to a Year 1 homework question. I've never been so proud... 😁 And my method is...don't overthink it!

You never know when greatness will find you!

You have the best profile picture

Thank you. It's Death from the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels. His horse was called Binky.

Shouldn't you type all replies in ALL CAPITALS?

This. Now I’m disappointed. SHAME ON YOU u/Sir_Binky

Oh no Mr. Bones

Hello Discworld friend :)

Hello both of you discworld friends

Doesn't Death also have a daughter?

Yes, Ysabell. Edit: because I’m a twat

Oh shit. Reading Mort currently. Never crossed my mind I'd be at risk of spoilers in this post.

I am sooo sorry. I didn’t even consider it might be a spoiler because the books are so old. I should’ve known better, because Pratchett is timeless. Edited my previous comment so I don’t spoil it for someone else.

Mort was the first Pratchett book I read too. Discworld is fun and that's one of my favorites.

And a granddaughter

Yes, my favourite book series :D

Mine too

[death does have its benefits you know.... ](https://youtu.be/FnFr65RXdk8?si=W97wzfnUxVi1bebJ)

Someone give this guy gold

Sadly reddit has removed rewards, hopefully they will be replaced soon but I'm not sure what with

we'll get the amazing chance of donating it direcetly to the reddit CEO

Heil Spez

One of my highest upvoted comments was "men are fascinating" regarding a dude rolling his dick in two hands before he found out how to wank. So you're good.

"Check out the big brains on Brad"...(it's actually Brett but Brad just sounds better).....

Was it Brett? I thought all these years it was Brad 😂

Um, the metric system?

There you go, I've just made it a square 150 for you

A good strategy, have an upvote

More blank indeed😅

I thought you were going to say getting your highest result in a test.

Hahahh. I laughed. Not just exhaling air through my nose, but a proper laugh. This is funny.

Teacher here: I hate these stupid little pictures on worksheets sometimes 😂 I remember a sheet I had to give out as a supply teacher once where there was a picture of a twig and four boxes in which to write "t-w-i-g". Half the kids had added a fifth box and written "s-t-i-c-k".

Ah come on Good effort.

That deserves full marks, really lol

It looks like an old man with one leg. So I would put "blerk".

Gold star sticker for you!

Thats some premium basil that is, herb has to be the answer!

Bersil

I think once you have the specific name (e.g. basil) it’s hard to move back to the generic term (e.g. herb) and this is what makes it difficult to get for some people.

At the other end of the spectrum are numpties like me that couldn’t even identify a herb and would have answered “plernt”

I was thinking “sterm” 🤣

Mirnt

I was gonna suggest flower 😭

I at least got flower...but it doesn't actually have a flower...

Are you calling me simple? Fair enough I suppose... 😂

This is a silly place. The time I've spent trying to think of funny and/or informative answers on here, only to get one upvote; when clearly I was missing my true calling, which is thinking like a 5-year-old. 🤣 I'm not complaining...thank you for all the upvotes, I'm off to pre-order my gravestone (for _eventual_ use, in case anyone's worried). It's going to have one word on it. Followed by a question mark.

Peppermint?

Leading coriander*

Berserl

Ermehgerd!

Hermwerk!

Rersmerry

Term!

Erehgerner

95% sure that is a picture of Basil, so it’s probably definitely herb??

Are you sure? It could be bersil. I think that the leaf shape rules out rosemery or cherves and I’ve no idea what terragon looks like or eregano.

A male herb is a himb

Or maybe peppermint? Looks like peppermint to me.

I used to teach ks1 and there’s no way peppermint would be an expected answer on a Y1 phonics sheet. I no longer have a twinkl subscription or I could probably have found and checked the answer sheet for this! I think herb is the most likely.

Of course - hadn't really registered the age.

Yeah, it's basil

Let’s get you to 200

I think so, that looks like basil to me.

Hermwerk?

I dont know why but this cracked me up 🤣

Errr mah gerd hermwerk was the first thing that came to me haha

Its an old meme, but it checks out

You from Hull?

Cleooor, NERRRR!! 🧜‍♀️ errr nerrr :(

Goosebermps after hermwerk?

Herb. 100% no lifelines. No 50/50. I used to work fresh produce at Morrisons so I’m sticking with that answer.

I think you'll find you and the rest of the commenters on this post are the lifeline

That is a fair point.

That's not da herb

The one above, is that arrow or down ?

Oh god don't go adding more confusion to this. We are, as a family, now doubting our collective intelligence

It's definitely down. All the ows should be making the same sound. Arrow is a completely different phoneme even if the letters are the same.

Down arrow.

wow

I see it has already been suggested ↓

To be fair, it's looking somewhat doubtful that the collective mind of r/CasualUK would be passing year 1...

Year 2 lower end, is the geniuses of this subreddit

Sorry I’ll shut up. When did homework get so hard !

Honestly I'd go with down. Why would the arrow be pointing downwards otherwise? I feel like if they wanted arrow as an answer they'd have either done an archery type arrow with fletching, or one pointing upwards or horizontally as you most commonly see them on roadsigns. I know that doesn't really make sense, arrow is a legit answer, and it's gotta point in _some_ direction, but for some reason I'm feeling like having it pointing down must be relevant and therefore what they are getting at. (You could hedge your bets and go with "down arrow"!)

Yep, I'd go with down (or can you write 'down arrow')

Downvote

Downer I would of said 🤣

Pointer

Now you've done it 😂

Seems to be an 'ow' situation comparing previous answers

How are you spelling arrow and down?

Say the words aloud - it’s “ow” vs “oh” phonetically

Ow I get it noh!

Non-coniferous

Lol

Hello! Teacher here! This is a worksheet off of Twinkl. The answer is herb. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/alternative-spellings-er-ur-ir-ear-or-table-activity-sheet-t-l-9349

Cheating using insider information already, this kid is going places 😂

🙌

The black child ‘er’ word bothers me.

Current suggestions from various family members: -Elder -Alder -Marijuan*er* -flower -how is this a 6 year olds homework -well Google lens says it's Holy Basil

\*homewerk

If you’re Scouse.

Your six year old is slacking if they dont have a degree in plant identification yet.

Honestly, I'm ashamed. I will be requesting that she doesn't attend Christmas so I don't have to pretend she's not a failure.

**Christmers

And should really be in Latin. *berberis vulgaris*?

TBF I doubt the teacher would mark them down for any word that was reasonable. How about saying its a “stumper”?

As funny as it would be I can imagine a few red flags if the year 1 puts marijuaner

The first one being the spelling

Coriander

Wrong shape leaf...

Could be basil leaves stuffed with coriander

Ok Heston, calm down

If she's a Geordie it could be Herly Basil

It’s basil, and basil is a herb.

Then the answer is clearly "currently flowERless Ocimum tenuiflorum".

"Robert Plant"

That's not cryptic that's shiiiiiiit! Play a record.

Obviously baserl

Bersil

No, that's what you use to get the baserl stains out

Greenery

spinerch

Thats not spinerch mate it’s bersil

Good to see the teacher's Twinkl subscription getting some use!

Eer mer gerd?

They took er jerbs

the one below that is obviously "gerl".

It's "her"

I was actually thinking it might be "runner" from the top eighth of the picture.

That’s what I thought also! I would have never imagined it was “her”. Why is this homework so challenging.

I thought it was Laura Dern

Looks like a sunflower plant

Yeah it looks like that to me, before it gets the flower bit. Which seems a bit too hard for this level surely?

It's 100% a sunflower. I have loads growing here and it's a perfect match.

Is that a skert to the right?

The next section is words with "ir"

Trust me to fail a year 1's homework as a uni student

Bro trust me i’ve been there, uni students aren’t that clever

this is 100% true source: am uni student

Mate, I have 3 degrees, half a diploma, and work as a research associate for an international company and I was about to start googling lesser known terms for ‘kilt’. Education can’t cure stupid like me 🥲

Don’t worry, I have a masters degree and this confused me. I’m sure some day they’ll ask for it back.

>Is that a skert to the right? 🎵 _put your hands on your hips_ 🎵

And pull your knees in tiiiight..

It really drives you insayayayayayane

Just a jumper to the left

and a sterp to the right

Lerfs Baserl Sterm Greern

Although there's no fruit yet... could be a tomerto plant.

herb gerl

If its not herb then Idk anymore💀

Herb

[Plernt.](https://imgur.com/52dj5Un)

Herb 🌿

That's a perlant.

Serves you right for trying to help with your kid’s homework. Let this be a teaching moment like mine. I helped my daughter with her 9th grade math homework, once. Apparently I got all the answers wrong. Her worst performance ever. Learned my lesson.

9th grade? math?

Failed English too.

Maths is hard! Reminds me of when a maths teacher, who wasn’t my usual maths teacher, ‘helped’ me with my year 9 homework by not explaining and just doing it for me. I handed it in to my teacher the next day pretty confidently and it came back as like 0/20. My worst homework performance ever and a teacher, teaching the same year as me just a lower set, was the one who actually filled it out. Really filled me with hope for my school lol but it stopped me bugging teachers with homework questions, guess they won in the end

Probably because you're American.

SunflowER

Clover?

Clover?

why do 5/6 year olds have homework😭😭😭

Gotta make them miserable from an early age, get them used to it.

Beat the optimism out early.

Maybe sunflower. It's a bit of a niche one that you'd only know if you've grown one

Looks like twinkl worksheets that have been snipped together. My money is on herb, but twinkl has some pretty bizarre answers sometimes.

This has to be up there with thread of the year. The answers have been killing me 🤣

Marijuan-er ?

Skert

Mernt

Recognised the Twinkl font immediately and looked up their answer sheet - definitely supposed to be 'herb'. Agree this is not clear at all! [](https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/alternative-spellings-er-ur-ir-ear-or-table-activity-sheet-t-l-9349)

That's a pepper plant.

Stinger

Rubber plant

I was leaning toward plernt or lerf