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I would love to hear this subject, "The Secret Language of Families," covered on the show again. I'm sure there are more words to be covered.
For example, I just discovered that at least one of the words I grew up with is, shockingly, listed in Merriam-Webster. I ate slumgullion at least once a month and I have yet to meet anyone else who enjoyed the experience of all the leftovers from the refrigerator being thrown in a pot and cooked together. Leftover spaghetti, peas, ham, chili, just clean out the fridge and put it all in the dutch oven.
Another word that continues to confound my many dictionary searches is pronounced PE-sha. My Mom used it to mean "a woman's privates." Mom grew up in a multi-ethnic apartment complex so I've searched Italian and Yiddish words for that area of the body to no avail.
Stoppel: Nice!
kierae, yes "family words" is always a good topic. Did your family, btw, have a term for the cardboard tube that's left after a roll of TP is used up?
And Kathi: I somehow missed your earlier Kurwood Dirby story -- I'd have gotten that one, too! Now if someone could just sing me the music they played when the Password players changed seats. That one's been bugging me for years. Whenever I ask about this, people always mistakenly hum the "Final Jeopardy" song instead.
One of my favorite family words came from my grandmother, and it's what we say sometimes instead of "God Bless You." Of course I don't know how to spell it, but phonetically it sounds something like Bougitsmozee. My grandmother is Croatian, but we're not sure if it is Croatian or just something fun she came up with!
Thanks for this show!!!
Martha Barnette
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