Friday fun - do you say words that aren't really words?

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RE: Friday fun - do you say words that aren't really wo...

LOL...your work sounds like an interesting place to be!

I say "astrophofee" (ah-strof-a-fee) around my family sometimes when I'm goofing around because that is what my dad says instead of "apostrophe." I love that one. (He and my mom both immigrated here from Germany, and he, in particular, is notorious for making up words.) He also says "hippocrat" instead of "hypocrite." My all-time favorite, though, is bosh*t. Until I was about 16, I truly believed that was a legitimate curse word. Then I realized they were trying to say BULLSH*t.

~Cathy



>No, because I'm the language snob that started the thread
>picking on my coworker who says "axe", "Kwashi" and "Sir
>Lanka".
>
>I have another coworker, who I really like, who has said
>several times in the last two days, "I want to see it to
>'tuition'". I don't have the heart to tell her it's
>"fruition". She's really cute.

 

[Kathy02]

RE: Friday fun - do you say words that aren't really wo...

My dh and I always say, "N'to reach it!". It's what my son used to say when he couldn't reach us at bed time to give us a kiss, when he was about 2. So, now when dh and I can't reach something that's what comes out of our mouths.
There is another one that we say, that we also got from our son when he was that same age, "What's donin?"
It's funny how you pick up little things like that from your kids when they were little.
I also almost always say, "That's pediculous!" Another little word from a boy, my nephew, when he was about 2.

Kathy