Comments on: We’re Good At Naming Stuff

By: Caustic Cupcake

Caustic Cupcake — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:22:11 +0000

You are hereby notified that I am stealing the phrase “stuffel bag”.

By: smc

smc — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:45:54 +0000

In our family, we don’t make up words. We delete them. I think we are down to about 28 total words, and when a new word is required, we refer to it as a whatchamacallit, a what’s-his-name (or what’s-his-face), a thingie, or the like. Any time we are running a quick errand, we just say “I’m running to the top of the hill.” What store? For what? WHAT HILL? No one knows. We’ve been saying it like that since my mom was a child.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:44:11 +0000

Been thinking about this fun post, and then the other day, my 3-yr. old said he had a “stummy ache”–stomach? tummy? It’s hard to make sense of our wacky language sometimes.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:25:04 +0000

When my son was small it was a treat to go get a “hamberguber at burber king” or go to “Frucky Chicken” – We still call Kentucky Fried Chicken, Frucky Chicken and he’s 29 years old!

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:47:20 +0000

LOVE the stufflebag; that is so very accurate!
In our family, I can only think of two at the moment though I’m sure there are many more:
My youngest (4 1/2) called donut holes with cinnamon, “Cinammon Rolls.” I think that’s appropriate.
In the winter, we do a lot of “snowveling” (snow shoveling) around here.

By: ks grandma

ks grandma — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:18:19 +0000

My granddaughter came to visit one time without her “swimming soup”. I, of course, had to ask her about it several times as she was just so gosh darn cute and so serious about telling me that she didn’t know why they didn’t pack her swimming soup. My brother, as a toddler, explained some behavior as happening because he was confused, he was “all fused up”. We use this explanation to this day, although he’s been gone for several years, and Mom no longer always remembers who I am, she still smiles that knowing smile when I say it’s ok to be “all fused up”.

By: shayne

shayne — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:27:16 +0000

My son dubbed the “Waffle House” as the “Awful House” when he was 2. Hmmm.

My daughter did not wear bathing suits to swim in. She wore “baking suits.”

Oh those wacky zany kids.

By: monica

monica — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:19:44 +0000

Don’t have time to read the comments, but I will come back. I bet you have some good ones. My husband calls my feet, “stinkers”. My little stinkers, yeah yeah yeah!! I think it’s funny, though it makes me blush!

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:56:36 +0000

The two lines that run from under your nose to your upper lip are called “Sub-lap-pages”…subnasal lateral parallel ridges! My husband and his roommate made this up in college after drinking.

By: edj

edj — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:06:30 +0000

damn-baids, instead of band-aids. Bones instead of Jones. And Abel packs just like Sean does, only he’s a few years older. So don’t expect it to end anytime soon.