[Magdalen] All in the family

[Charles Wohlers]

In our family, the only thing I can recall was names for our maternal 
grandparents. Since I was (am still!) the oldest, I got to make them up: 
"Momar" and "Daddy-Gramp". My cousins, of course, had different names for 
the same folks: my grandmother was "Gongkee", and I forget what my 
grandfather was.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Molly Wolf
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 11:06 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] All in the family

"Applesnot" (applesauce)
Answering "I've got a question" by saying "42"
"And there was much rejoicing" (Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Beaver fangs" for "I'm proud of you" or "congratulations" (long story 
involving the Canadian comedy "Men with Brooms")



The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no 
other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Sep 8, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have racked my brain today about this sort of 'inside family vocab' and 
> couldn't think of any... Ginga's post suddenly reminded me of 2:
>
> fufume  - my son Nathan's description of perfume when he was about 2
> and frinkling - also Nathan, to describe light rain/sprinkling
>
> both of these words stayed in the family vocabulary for years and I still 
> use frinkling and have introduced it to a close friend who often shares 
> sudden outside sprinkles with me, so it lives on!
>
> there are a few others itching to surface on my brain, if I remember them 
> I'll post again : )
> Lynn
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not 
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave 
> me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
> by Richard Rohr
>
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> From: "Ginga Wilder" <gingawilder at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 8:06 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] All in the family
>
>> Ginny Wilder tried to say 'good news!' in her excited state.  She spoke,
>> "New Goose!"  This stuck.  It's reserved for the best of the best news.
>>
>> Ginga
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was the progenitor of cottontail forks.
>>>
>>> Peace,
>>> Jo
>>>
>>>
>>> <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Today while making a shopping list I put something on it that made me
>>>>> think
>>>>> about words families use among themselves that people outside don't 
>>>>> get
>>>>> because they're "family" words, mostly made up within the family,
>>>>> sometimes
>>>>> by the children when they are small and sometimes otherwise.
>>>>>
>>>>>