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".