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  1. 06-09-2007, 06:51 PM #1
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    To me, punkin is a form of endearment or just a play on a word. For instance, our family uses oderarm-de-underant and irrigirates the fields.

    I'm reading Barbara Kingsolver's new book and she talks about the words that families generate and perpetuate. A young child in the family mangled the name of those big pink water birds and they forever became "flingmos."
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    Right, like the book title "A Monk Swimming". And some of these, like "whole nuther" are meant to be sloppy slang/fun.

    I have a friend, much beloved, who cannot learn how to say "ostensibly". She says "ostenshishly". What the heck. She's still a great person.
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    You ought to hear me say Worcestershire sauce.

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    Shoot, I don't usually even TRY that one.

    However, maybe you all will be amused to know that, with a former Navy sub captain for a father in law, I still seem to have trouble saying "Admiral" when I intend to, and have several times called my father in law's good friend "Admirable Long". And I'm sure he is.


    Quote Originally Posted by Veronica View Post
    You ought to hear me say Worcestershire sauce.

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    You're making it too complicated. Worcestershire = wers - te - sher. Accent on the first syllable.
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    Oh, and if I hear our president say, "noocyeelur" instead of "nuclear," one more time, I may tear hairs out of my head. And not just the grey ones, mind you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SadieKate View Post
    You're making it too complicated. Worcestershire = wers - te - sher. Accent on the first syllable.

    It's pronounced

    Woostershire sauce depending on where in England you come from. Some pronouce it Worseter sauce.

    Playing on family words one of my cousins when she was little would call an umbrella a "Humbee-eddy".

    I had a habit of calling my elder brother (6 years older than me - and the one who's hopefully donating a kidney to my son) a "Higoramus" instead of an "Ignoramus"
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    Nahhhh... you got it all wrong.

    You change the letters around, add some and get...


    War chest er sauce.

    Totally wrong - but communication occurs in the mind of the listener. At least my husband knows what to get.

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    More family words -- shocks - shoes and socks, and one I've heard from more than one person baskettie - spaghetti.
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