The Secret Language of Families - 8 Sept. 2008
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🗓️ 8 September 2008
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:29.0 | com pricing shown. You're listening to Away With Words, I'm Grant Parrot. And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:38.6 | And you know, speaking of Words, when I was growing up, We Barnets had a special family word and the word was fubby. |
| 0:46.0 | Now the word fubby comes from the fact that our fox terrier was named traveler, |
| 0:51.0 | but the name traveler was too hard for my little brother Jim to say and always came out fubby. |
| 0:57.0 | So whenever my mom wanted to take us on road trips, she'd say to us, |
| 1:01.0 | now I want you to be good little fubbies. I think that my mother probably |
| 1:05.8 | used the word fuby in that particular context in part because it was a family word, this |
| 1:11.1 | kind of secret code that got the attention of us little kids. |
| 1:15.4 | And Grant, I'm betting that you either had a word like that growing up or maybe you're making |
| 1:19.8 | some now. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, it's funny that it was a word that came from the mispronunciation of a sibling, but oh, I don't know how you get from traveler |
| 1:28.3 | to fubby, that's going to go to the distance. |
| 1:31.1 | But growing up in my household, you know, with my parents and my four siblings, I don't |
| 1:36.2 | remember very many of these words. There were the odd mispronunciations here and there that |
| 1:39.2 | we would laugh about, but nothing that really stuck. But in the household that I'm a co-boss of now I like that. |
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