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I once took over a desk that had been vacated by a past employee, in which I found a small box labeled "gizmotchis". It turned out to contain red map-pins, but since then I've never been able to think of red map-pins as anything other than gizmotchis.

When I lived in southwestern New Mexico, I picked up a couple of Spanish General Specifics: comosellama and its partner comosedice, each pronounced as a single word and each used exactly as you'd use the English equivalent "whatchamacallit".