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by: FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 11:58am  
So when I was growing up (OK after I became a parent also) when use boys (usually me since I was the oldest) called something by a name other than it's real name, they sometimes became that object going forward.So I am sitting my cube, and got my lunchable out (usually I buy the ones with crackers, cheese and meat only) and open it up and it has 2 cookies in it. I just exclaim "Two Dee Doos, what the hell?!?"My cube mate looks at me with this, "What the hell are you talking about?" look.I had to explain when I was very young (between 1 & 2 years old) I used to call coookies Dee Doos, and forever more in our family, cookies were called Dee Doo's. Now I never use that name anymore, ever, so I am not sure what came over me to spout that out loud.Something else my dad coined the name Pa Lee Can for pelican, and my youngest daughter to this day tells the story of how her friends looked at her weird when she was 8 because she just thought that what they were called. And how she didn't believe them when they set her straight.By nephews grew up calling their butts KoonDingYee because that was the Korean term for it, and they my brother and sister in law thought that was a much better term.I'm sure we had more, but can't recall them right now.So did yall have any alternate names for things just limited to your family? 4951
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Jpgurl Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 3:02pm  
My son couldn't say spaghetti or helicopter. My dad couldn't say helicopter either.So spaghetti has become pasghetti Helicopter has become - hello co Peter ( most popular) or heppa captor 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 3:14pm  
"Now I never use that name anymore, ever, so I am not sure what came over me to spout that out loud."Seems like that's not true.  Your story is about using the name.When I was around 13, I was baby sitting my cousins.  They insisted on watching a horror movie.  The youngest one became terrified of the werewolves in the movie.  My other cousin told him "they're not werewolves, they're weirdos."  We all started laughing about all the stupid things the weirdos did in the movie.  Werewolves are still Weirdos to us. 4951
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Txbutterfly Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 3:22pm  
My girls cold not say alcohol, it was hackinol, and still is at our house Emoticon thanks for the memories, having really bad empty nest symptoms today. 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 3:52pm  
Growing up with a Cajun father, we learned many alternate names for things.  I think the mix of French, German, Swiss, and Spanish cultures caused a lot of confusion over the years:We called them shallots when they were really scallions (green onions).We called a dish Crawfish Bisque but it was much different than the typical French Bisque.Cottonmouth and Water Moccasin:  My father said the cottonmouth was a venomous snake whereas a water moccasin was any non-venomous water snake.Courtbuillion: Pronouned cou-bee-yon by my father was a seafood stew, where in France it is more like a broth.I'm sure there were many more, but those are the ones I can think of right now.When I was in college, I tried once to correct my father on these words, but he just said "That's what his mother called them, so that's what they were."I had a Cajun Aunt travel to France for a vacation many years ago.  She expected spicy food like she grew up with and still cooked.  She was very disappointed.  She said everything was so rich, buttery, and had wine in it.  She also found that, although she was fluent in Cajun French, she had a hard time communicating with the French.  Like the Cajun culture and foods, the French language became a melange of languages.  If they both slowed down enough, they could communicate well enough.  There are even pockets of Cajuns that have such a distinct dialect that they have trouble talking to Cajuns from another area.BTW:  This recipe is similar to what my father made when he made Crawfish Bisque 4951
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sweetie Active Indicator LED Icon 11 Forum Moderator
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 6:06pm  
My mil calls vacuum cleaners hoovers because that's what kind if vacuums they use to have. She also called oil earl. She'd say she was boiling "earl". She was born and raised in New Orleans . Her parents were Italians. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 6:26pm  
My mil calls vacuum cleaners hoovers because that's what kind if vacuums they use to have. She also called oil earl. She'd say she was boiling "earl". She was born and raised in New Orleans . Her parents were Italians.
 
@sweetie: Strange but hoover became a common synonym for vacuum in England too, the the extent that the verb hoovering is also in common usage there.
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friday1 Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 8:07pm  
My mil calls vacuum cleaners hoovers because that's what kind if vacuums they use to have. She also called oil earl. She'd say she was boiling "earl". She was born and raised in New Orleans . Her parents were Italians.
 
@sweetie: At least she didn't call it a Kirby. Biggest piece of junk out there I don't care how much you paid for it.
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Annie Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 9:00pm  
Clicker is the name for the remote control, according to my mom.
 
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caroline7327 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 9:15pm  
This may be a stretch for an Alternate Name story, But many years ago when my nephew, named CODY, was about three, I was keeping him for the weekend.
 
He was at the stage where he could talk, just not very easy to understand unless you were around him a lot.
 
I had an emergency come up, and had to leave him with my neighbor. In all the haste, I neglected to tell my friend the neighbor the child's name 😨 they spend all afternoon trying to interpret him saying his name.....
 
To this day, when he acts like he has been "mistreated", I just say "Well, JOSEPH, what can I say to make you feel better?"
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allymansfield Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 8 years ago   Sep 4, '15 9:58pm  
Oh man...I  have a Ukrainian grandmother.  We have SO MANY weird names for stuff.  Since Ukrainian uses different letters than the American alpahbet, bear with me, I'll spell them phonetically....Hands up - yuchies (yuch cheese) - typically said when dressing or undressingEat/food - Hamoo (ha moo) - saying to a baby, "you want hamoo?"Hup pa pa Hoy da da - a song she would sing when bouncing kidsHinie (hine knee) - your buttStrattababba (strat a ba ba) - a complaining old ladysmatah (schma tah) - a chincy piece of cloth/clothingsmatoch (schma toch) - nose snotHanyah (han yah) - Anne (like the name)Chuchcha (chuch cha) - AuntChudnie (chud knee) - the color black, typically referring to a person (she is 89, sorry...)And so many more traditional foods!   Yummy!My sister calls her boys "thing" a pishcadeil (pish kah deal) - I think it is supposed to be italian 4951
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