Invented Words

We refer to cows and pigs as beefs and porks sometimes.

What's rude about biscuit tin? ?

I say lesbinims and interweb which I suspect I have picked up on hitched

There are others but I can't for the life of me think of them now

I only ever call Primark, Primarni & have done for years...it's just a habit now.

I probably have millions of others but they all come so naturally that I don't notice anymore

Holibob & Helichopper

Nouveau Regarde (instead of New Look) is another one I say all the time

I say lesbanims too. I think it's a Friendsism.

I also say Jealish to mean a little bit jealous.

We seem to have invented the word 'binocularise'. I think there are more but I can't recall them at the moment.

I don't know. I think it's just that my Mum's loopy ?

They wound me up so much when I was little. My stepdad told me that pork pies were made from dead animals from the zoo - if the meat was grey, it was from hippos or elephants.

? God my family's weird.

Tellybox

'puterbox (desktop) or tiptop (laptop)

t'interweb

Canadia - where Canadians come from

Photographise - to take a photo

Photographiser - one that takes photos

And my 2 1/2 yr old has suddenly, out of nowhere, started calling Asda's Asdoodle. No idea why, but it's quite amusing.

T'internet

moocow

confudgulated - confused

Pooter - computer

Stevie - tv (another Friendsism)

Sainsbuggers

No idea why!

We use interwebs too, but I think from B3ta rather than hitched.

We also take the mick out of the American way of taking a perfectly normal word like burgle, and making it unnecessarily longer, ie burglarize - in our house that would be come burglarizificated, or some such.

Thanks to my niece rice-crispies are now cry-bispies.

Oh, and rather a lot of Franglais nowadays too.

We say whelm, whelmed and whelming as in - there I was, just whelming along, minding my own business (came from a drunken conversation when we mused about you could be underwhelmed and overwhelmed but not just whelmed)

Mr ET also has a habit of adding 'ezzle' to most words and expecting me to know what he means, so for remote control he'll say rezzle kezzle or for playstation he'll say plezzle sezzle (X-box 360 was an interesting one)

He also says keege instead of kettle and can often be heard asking me to 'put the keege on'

My Dad and I have said cwitch instead of quiche for a long time and he used to reverse words when we were little, to the extent that I never say pony tail anymore, only why-noppy lye-at (ynop liat). I think we're a strange family too.

We also say picture-skew instead of picturesque, and since a falling-out-of-bed-laugh-at-Mr-FtG incident Hermione is now Hermy-own. Similarly persephone (should we ever actually need to say persephone, which admittedly isn't that often).

We have supermarkets here called co-op, though not part of the same co-op as the UK, and they get called coop too ?

Just remembered I also say pea-hone instead of phone. I think that's one from my Dad too (he's a weirdo)

Not really a made up word but the remote control is always 'the buttons'

Cotton buds/Q tips are 'twiddlers' in our house

Jerseyboy used to pronounce it Her-My-Owney. In fact, he still can't quite grasp it and every now and again while reading HP, he'll ask me to remind him.

Our favourite is "Petorkian". It can be used for anything- it's mainly a bit of an insult "oi you big petorkian" but you can also use it as a verb, to petork something up is to make a mess of it.

We always say:-

French France (never just France for some reason)

Muriel (Mural on wall)

Linger - ee (lingerie)

Las - ag - nee (lasagne)

Mirr - oh (mirror as a friend actually pronounces it like that and we take the p)

The remote control is the doofer in our house, it's what my dad calls it and I guess I picked it up from there.

We say "noodles" to mean I love you too, I'm not going to tell you why because it's very twee and silly and I think I would be banished ?

There are loads more but I just can't think of them at the moment, me and H are both quite random at times! (for example, I call our friend Jim, Mr Bob, and I have no idea why ?

ETA: Hefalump = elephant, but that's probably from winnie-the-poo.

Re-dicerlus = ridiculous

We use loads at home. These are a few:

Thuswards - meaning like this

Footit - elephant

Froll around - bimbling about, mooching, not doing much,

Wang - as in wang your arm lard (shake those bingo wings) or pass ie 'wang us the remote control' - please pass the remote control

Las-ag-nee is another one we use too

'fush n chups' stuck after a trip to NZ

Oh and Squish instead of Squash

Squeeze me = excuse me

Helico peter = helicoptor

We also say fee and chee for fish and chips. A chip shop owner near a friend's old house used to ask 'you waa saw finger on you fee an chee?' (do you want salt and vinegar on your fish and chips)

Also- cheeky or larm, salad, mayonez, two futty plez, for a kebab meaning, chicken or lamb, salad and mayonnaise? Two Forty please. (this obviously takes significantly longer than just saying kebab, but the local take away near my brother's student house was the origin for this one and said in the right greek accent can cause howling laughter for several minutes)

(see earlier post. we're very wierd)

Burgulated = burgled.

lomelope = envelope

I'm sure there are more.

Shish and fips (fish and chips)

And as Crantocks 2.5 yr old has Asdadoodle mine has "PeskyTeskies"

We do our own versions of a lot of these - usually involving something like "..anated" or "..ificate" "..ificanated" or "..ificanatorisation" on the end of the words

the one that's stuck round the most has been referring to a cup of tea or coffee (usually in the mornnings but not necessarily) as a gimmer - from the mighty boosh radio shows where Howard has to make the gimmer tea whilst Vince climbs a building

Oh yes, I forgot squish instead of squash. I asked OH for squash the other day, and he had to think what I wanted for a sec! ?

We are clearly bored where I work and use the following:

Petra-fied: to be delayed at work by Petra

Cup-O-bagsin: Tea bag left in (for ponsy teas)

Scringolopsed: Work interferred with by chap nicknamed Scringo

Scablice: Scabby chalice - unwashed cup

Shabba-ed: managed to get another mention on George Lamb's show

Flippled: Customer lost their temper

Holibobs

Layde for lemonade

Gangan for grandad

moocows and moocow biscuits