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Saturday, October 8

New Words For The English Language

Have you noticed how over the years the new inventive flow of words or catch phrases that seem to go well within our cultures at that particular time period? Words that fly off our tongues and from within our brains like quiz or chick flick or boffo seem to do the trick.

Seems to me it's usually journalists, musicians or poets who have poetic license to make up these words or phrases. Slim Galliard, a great jazz musician invented his own language, basing it mostly on Arabic words. Fats Waller, also a great jazz musician often rewrote entire tunes if he hated the lyrics to an already established song.

With the advent of the Internet, we as a culture see more off-beat words or phrases than we could possibly imagine or process in an entire lifetime.

Keeping that in mind, I'd like to share at least five of my own words with you from the language I speak, granted they are not standard words and probably are spelled similarly, nonetheless they words of goodness and what the heck, it beats the old standard stuff anyway...

Bondatouga: (pronounced bah-n-dah-too-gah) this is a dirty diaper with a broom on its head, a vacuum cleaner in its right ear, milk in its left ear, ears above its eyes, a chair in its stomach & it comes from India.

Balatounga: (pronounced bah-la-toon-gah) this is an angel that has two tons of hair sticking out, beautiful wings, a long tail, a planet on its head & a light bulb in its stomach.

Theetoobugo: (pronounced thee-too-boo-go. The u is silent) this is an animal from China. It has a beard, 100 noses and its body composition is made out of sticks. It has a hat inside its stomach & acts like a horse. It has a monkey on its head & does the booga-booga dance. Its tummy is up to the ceiling. It sleeps all day & never wakes up, except in winter.

Bogoyzdaooououley: (pronounced boo-goy-zzz-dah-ooh-ooh-ooh-lay) this is a hairy ball with a TV on its head and comes from Africa, outer space. It as no teeth, no mouth, no eyes, no ears, no noses, no hair, but it has one thousand legs with pink human teeth in them. It comes from the family of cheekies and it lives invisible. The scientific name for it is called poicks mot leythe & eats bicycles and a great big tree.

Bearocoocissigpxxxohopringgni: (pronounced: bear-oh-kook-issygh-pecks ex-ex-oho-pring-gh-knee) this simply means when you meet a Native American Indian on the street, you bow your head & offer them Manhattan.

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