The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10553   Message #73795
Posted By: Barbara
27-Apr-99 - 02:36 PM
Thread Name: Creating your own name for something
Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something
Bert, that's called "Bugly", not "a" Bugly.
From the daughter when she was younger:
fuzzy water (carbonated or fast flowing, like into the tub)
Garoana (granola or gorilla, the name of her stuffed one)
win'shiel'pers (one sylable too many)
computadora
and from a friend:
dead food store - (Canned Foods and the like that sell discontinued brands and styles)
And in my family we always call a present you give someone else that is really for yourself, a "football". It derives from the time my father and his two brothers saved up and gave my grandmother a football for her birthday. (Actually, they'd overheard her telling a friend she wanted a "fruitbowl", and misheard her; "fruitbowl" not being in the forefront of a 12 yr old boy's mind the way "football" is.)
Blessings,

Barbara