Share your family's made up words
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My grandfather is a tinkerer, and he can fix just about anything using crazy things no one thinks of using, but it works. In our family we call that a “Herb-job” whenever we have to rig something together. Unfortunately he is losing is eyesight and can’t tinker too much anymore, but I think “Herb-job” will be something we all use for the rest of our lives.
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Some of these words stay in the family for a lifetime. When my brother was little, my grandfather had a big retirement party in Miami, Florida. We all went for a trip down there from NY. My brother got upset and said it wasn’t YOUR Ami it was EVERYBODY’S AMI!
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The one infamous word in my family is “fudgenuts.” My eldest picked up the F word from his grandmother (yeah, I know) early on. By the time he was 3, he knew how to spell it and use it correctly in a sentence. (GROAN!) As just telling him not to say it didn’t work, we started looking around for a fix. One day I said “Fudgenuts!” and he giggled madly. So every time he would say the one word, I would tell him, “No, say fudgenuts instead. It’s a much funnier and cooler word!” It took a week or two, but he finally made the switch. He is 20 now and still says I should make a recipe and market fudgenuts. LOL