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7:13PM
Feb-05-10


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Stephen Mikesell said:

At the end of the discussion about the term for baby-sat children, "care-giver" was mentioned. So how about "care-kids" or "carekids"? It carries a punch and has good connotations.

7:16PM
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Gini said:

Stephen Mikesell said:

At the end of the discussion about the term for baby-sat children, "care-giver" was mentioned. So how about "care-kids" or "carekids"? It carries a punch and has good connotations.

I dog sit and call my sit upon dogs my "sitlets"

7:19PM
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Regarding those kids one sits. I don't sit kids, but I do sit dogs, and I call them my "sitlets"

7:04AM
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Post edited 7:07AM – Apr-22-10 by Laura G.

Stephen Mikesell said:

At the end of the discussion about the term for baby-sat children, "care-giver" was mentioned. So how about "care-kids" or "carekids"? It carries a punch and has good connotations.

I use the word "kidsits," although I could see the kids loving the spelling of "kidsitz!" It's from the phrase "the kids I babysit." Of course, most of the children that you babysit don't like to be called babies…so "kidsits or kidsitz" it is!

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I LURVE the word Squee-Jawed, everyone I know uses it in Kalamazoo, MI, where I grew up. I didn't know it wasn't common until I moved near Cincinnati, when I had a terrible time describing it to people (it's easier to show them). Now, I have never heard the word Squee-Jawed to mean something hanging crooked, like a picture, but I have always heard it in the context of something that should be square (such as a bookcase) being out of square. A picture on the wall was just crooked.
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