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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