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

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:51:18PM -0400, Padraic Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> >On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Dan Jones wrote:
> >> Easily solved: Schleicher's "sheep and horses" fable!!! No cultural
> >> thingummy-wotsits and it's got a lot of linguistic significance. Perfect
> >
> >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.
>
> /'TIN@mi/ I use it all the time; along with /'hw@tsIt/ /'TIN@m@bab/
> /'huzIt/ and /'TIN@m@,dZIg/. I've also used /'nosE,ke/ /'n&kvaR,R&t/
> and /'nEskjo,kwa:m/ at times. I'll have to add /'TIN@mi,hw@tsits/ to
> the list!
Wow, that's quite a list. What's /'n&kvaR,R&t/? Sounds Scandinavian.

I've heard people say thingamabob (whence I presume thingamajob.com got its
name, though I would have to be crazy to think employers would look for
potential employees on a web site at all, least of all with such a
ridiculous name) and thingamajig, and whatchamacallit, as someone mentioned.
Also I've heard /wVts1z"huz1ts/, but that's only for a person whose name one
doesn't remember, and never /huzIt/. My favorite silly word for a generic
thing is thingy /"TINi/.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo

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