I’ll see your hostipal and raise you a burgular.
People are seeing people’s things and raising them with other things a lot lately.
I’m not a poker player (although I do have the ultimate poker-face) so it sticks out.
My uncle used to use the word “ecadations” for “decorations.”
My younger sisters couldn’t pronounce my IRL name when they were little. So I’ve got the family nicknames “Beena” and “Bagel” for life, now.
I give up - I’ve heard of Skellingtons and Heffalumps (incidentally, that new Winnie the Pooh movie is sacrilege since it introduces the heffalump as a real character) - but what the hell are Libradies?
I was wondering the same thing. I have often heard kids say “liberries,” but “libradies” is a new one.
PingWings live at the South Pole.
My kids are ‘bugglies’, short for Grunt Bugglies ('cause they grunted a lot when they were brand new)
I got it from Douglas Adams - they were mentioned in Vogon Poetry so I’m satisfied that it works on so many levels.
Both of my kids had trouble with:
Hostipal (hospital)
Plaskit (plastic)
Mazagine… maz…gazine…mazagazagazine! (magazine)
Losb… Lostb… Lozbter (lobster)
And not so much trouble pronouncing, it, but just persistent use of the made-up term ‘misapppeared’ instead of disappeared
You know, that actually fits better than the correct name. I mean what do “flutterbys” do all day? That’s right, they “flutter by”. Perfect. I’m using that from now on.