Bakers Dozen

Thirteen examples of onomatopoeia:

  1. Achoo
  2. Oink
  3. Thud
  4. Bonk
  5. Splash
  6. hum
  7. Plop

Thirteen examples of onomatopoeia:

  1. Achoo
  2. Oink
  3. Thud
  4. Bonk
  5. Splash
  6. hum
  7. Plop
  8. Hiss

Thirteen examples of onomatopoeia:

  1. Achoo
  2. Oink
  3. Thud
  4. Bonk
  5. Splash
  6. hum
  7. Plop
  8. Hiss
  9. Woof

Thirteen examples of onomatopoeia:

  1. Achoo
  2. Oink
  3. Thud
  4. Bonk
  5. Splash
  6. hum
  7. Plop
  8. Hiss
  9. Woof
  10. Moo

I’m starting to feel like Old MacDonald, who had a farm…

Thirteen examples of onomatopoeia:

  1. Achoo
  2. Oink
  3. Thud
  4. Bonk
  5. Splash
  6. hum
  7. Plop
  8. Hiss
  9. Woof
  10. Moo
  11. Drip

Thirteen examples of onomatopoeia:

  1. Achoo
  2. Oink
  3. Thud
  4. Bonk
  5. Splash
  6. hum
  7. Plop
  8. Hiss
  9. Woof
  10. Moo
  11. Drip
  12. Zap

Thirteen examples of onomatopoeia:

  1. Achoo
  2. Oink
  3. Thud
  4. Bonk
  5. Splash
  6. hum
  7. Plop
  8. Hiss
  9. Woof
  10. Moo
  11. Drip
  12. Zap
  13. Boom

Next

Words you parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport

Words you parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo

Words you parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box

My grandmother’s word for a freezer.

Words you parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)

Good one, thanks Bayaker. I heard the tune a lot when my kids were in band and marched playing it in our town’s St Patrick’s Day parade

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro
  6. venereal disease (VD)

which has been replaced with sexually-transmitted disease (STD)

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro
  6. Chinaman

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro
  6. venereal disease (VD)
  7. Chinaman

Housekeeping

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro
  6. venereal disease (VD)
  7. Chinaman
  8. Oriental

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro
  6. venereal disease (VD)
  7. Chinaman
  8. Oriental
  9. Colored

My grandmother was apparently a generation older than Elendil’s Heir’s grandmother. (She was born in 1900.)

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro
  6. venereal disease (VD)
  7. Chinaman
  8. Oriental
  9. Colored
  10. The N word

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro
  6. venereal disease (VD)
  7. Chinaman
  8. Oriental
  9. Colored
  10. The N word
  11. wire or cable

Meaning, a telegram. “I got a wire from Johnny in New York,” or “I’ve got to cable London on this matter.” Nowadays, I just make a call, or send a text.

Words your parents or grandparents used that you don’t

  1. davenport
  2. skidoo
  3. ice box
  4. queer (meaning strange)
  5. Negro
  6. venereal disease (VD)
  7. Chinaman
  8. Oriental
  9. Colored
  10. The N word
  11. wire or cable
  12. “Thinks he’s shit on a stick”