Discussion Forum | A Way with Words

martha on "Oh-ah, Oh-ah": That's How We Roll (minicast)

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:12:09 +0000

Jim and Heather, thanks for the comments. So, did you also have words for the big ones that held wrapping paper?

HEATHER D on "Oh-ah, Oh-ah": That's How We Roll (minicast)

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:29:23 +0000

!!! We never had a name for it when i was a kid, but my husband always knew it as a "doot-da-dooh" too!! That's what we call it now with our 5 yr old.
Heather D

tejastani on "Oh-ah, Oh-ah": That's How We Roll (minicast)

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:44:57 +0000

In my family the Oh-ah Oh-ah was called a "doot-da-dooh."

Jim Samsel
San Antonio,TX

Grant Barrett on "Oh-ah, Oh-ah": That's How We Roll (minicast)

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:41:45 +0000

Does your family have a word for the cardboard tube left over from a roll of toilet paper? A caller says his family refers to them Oh-ah, Oh-ahs. Turns out many families have their own terms for them, including drit-drit, dawda dawda, hoo-hoo, to-do, taw-taw, and der der.

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