>From: Bjorn Kristinsson <bjornkri@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: CHAT: thingummy (was Re: concepts of Babel text)
>Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 13:48:36 -0000
>
>let's not forget "wossname"...
>
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>From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
>Behalf Of Adam Walker
>Sent: 5. ma?2001 13:41
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>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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