Re: CHAT: thingummy (was Re: concepts of Babel text)
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 5, 2001, 21:28 |
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On Fri, 4 May 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Roger Mills wrote:
> > Agree here. /TiNgVmi/ entered my vocab via a good friend from Texas
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> /Ng/? Very interesting. I always use /N/, presumably because it's
> clearly based on "thing", /TiN/. I don't have "thingumy", but I do have
> "thingumabob" and "thingamajig", and those are /TiN@m@bAb/ and
> /TiN@m@dZIg/
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My sister is 17, and apparently in her clique the word in common use is
/Im@dZIg/
-------ferko
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