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Re: CHAT: thingummy (was Re: concepts of Babel text)

From:Bjorn Kristinsson <bjornkri@...>
Date:Saturday, May 5, 2001, 13:57
let's not forget "wossname"...

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Sent: 5. maí 2001 13:41
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Subject: Re: CHAT: thingummy (was Re: concepts of Babel text)


Other synonyms include doo-dad, do-hicky and whosit.

Adam


>From: Roger Mills <romilly@...> >Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> >To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU >Subject: Re: CHAT: thingummy (was Re: concepts of Babel text) >Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:24:27 -0400 > >Muke Tever wrote: > >>How does one pronounce <thingummy>? I've only ever seen it once before, >in > >>one of the Chronicles of Narnia, and obviously never heard it spoken. > > > >I would say /'TiNgVmi/, but OED has /'TIN@mI/ and also has 'thingum' and > >'thingumbob' and 'thingumajig' as relatives, all with /N/ not /Ng/... I'd >have > >/Ng/ in all but "thingum" (which isn't a word I have anyway). > > >Agree here. /TiNgVmi/ entered my vocab via a good friend from Texas-- I >assumed perhaps wrongly that it was a Southernism. Never heard thingum; >the >other two, yes, with ....ajig more common. Synonym "whatchamacallit".
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