# Basketti? Pasketti? What Was That Word? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 1999, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347 "1999-07-26T00:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/21 "1999-11-17T00:29:00Z")
My brother, when he was little, used to call rubber bands “uggy bangs.” Couldn’t ya just die from the cuteness… ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/22 "1999-11-17T00:38:00Z")
It’s “bisketti”. Everybody knows that. Also, it’s “tinger pood”, not “finger food” and “appoo pie”, not “apple pie”. These are all courtesy of my little sister. The last one isn’t that funny, I guess, except that my sister would refer to any kind of pie, apple, pumpkin, cherry, anything, as “appoo pie”. The only one I can remember from my own early days was hearing about something called “Afghanistan” on the news, and hearing my parents refer to the gazebo in the park as a “bandstand”. Well, needless to say, I got the two mixed up, and when my sister left her favorite stuffed animal at the park, and we had to go back and retrieve it, and I found it safe and sound in the gazebo, I ran back to my mother and breathlessly reported that “It’s on the Afghanistan! It’s on the Afghanistan!” I didn’t live that down for years. * * * “That’s entertainment!” —Vlad the Impaler ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/23 "1999-11-17T01:57:00Z")
Pisghetti. Ambliance. Hostibull. Fambly. Lellow. Naaaarna. for: Spaghetti. Ambulance. Hospital. Family. Yellow. Banana. 🙂 * * * -PIGEONMAN- Hero For A New Millennium! [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - updates every Wed & Sat ---
**Author:** ![putrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@putrid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putrid)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/24 "1999-11-17T07:33:00Z")
Wow, all those variations but not quite the _correct_ one, besketti. ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/25 "1999-11-18T06:36:00Z")
My brother used to drive my daughter crazy when she was about four because she dropped her 'r’s. He’d say, “Are you a gull?” and she’d say, “I’m not a _gull_, I’m a **gull**!” ## The Old Spaghetti Factory lists the article in quesion on their menu as Puzzgetti. In my house the pronunciation was psgetti. “Vandelay!! Say Vandelay!!” ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/26 "1999-11-18T06:57:00Z")
## My brother used to call fire trucks “fire frucks”. Since it sounded borderline obscene, one day on the bus my mom was trying to teach him to say it better by sounding it out: “say Fire Trrrr-_uck_…Fire Trrrr-_uck_”. So he takes a deep breath, and says as loud and clear as he can: “Fire Trrrr- **FUCK**!” “Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.” - Bertrand Russell ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/27 "1999-11-17T19:12:00Z")
Mhisketti. We dropped the “S” and performed a nasal mutation on what was left. My Welsh roots show. AFFLAU! Sqrl * * * Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/28 "1999-11-17T21:36:00Z")
When the three of us were kids we had a family expression “football.” “Empty football” (completely dressed). “Half-empty football” (half dressed). “All-over football” (naked). ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 1999, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347/29 "1999-11-21T13:45:00Z")
Family words, private words…hmm…we have dozens…meany bags(unknown origin)… cookie puts (from Taxi’s lavka and what’s her name, zinka?)…I forget… Then there’s those words only your spouse knows the meaning of.For me:riverbait. Actually, it means anything that falls in the river on a canoe trip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basketti-pasketti-what-was-that-word/11347.md?page=1)