Cup-board
Most people refer to the place where they keep dishes, dry-goods, etc as “kuh-boards”. The real word of course is “cup-boards” but I don’t know anyone that says it that way.
Why am I talking about kitchen storage? Because it occurred to me recently that at our house we have all adopted a Hannah-word to refer to enclosed storage places. At our house we have kitchen “covereds” and bathroom “covereds”, and upstairs there is even a toy “covered”. A few years ago Hannah had trouble saying “kuh-board” and it became “covered”. When you think about it, the old-fashioned cup-board was not enclosed, so “covereds” is a more accurate description of where we store things.
Gotta love Hannah-isms!
Make it a good “Wens-day” (does anyone say “Wed-nes-day”?)
OneMom
Love our Hannah. Here in bassethoundtown we say wensday. We will also, in honor of Hannah, say covereds! We like that much better.
My mom use to purposely say all three syllables of Wed-nes-day.
We are glad you will join us in “covereds”.
Hugs all around all at BHT!
I still have to convince my daughter that amn’t isn’t a proper contraction. Her logic makes sense thought. Is not, isn’t. Was not, wasn’t. So why not am not, amn’t? English is often a very silly language.
Yes, the contraction rules alone are puzzling, let alone everything else in the English language. “Are not” becomes “aren’t”, but “will not” becomes “won’t”. Toss in a generation that now communicates with 140 characters or less, and I do not hold out much hope for spelling, grammar, or formal communication.