Dear Paul Sassone,
I enjoy reading your column every week and especially enjoyed your Jan. 7 column about colloquialisms. So, I thought you might like to see some of mine:
My mother always said she was going to a “Doing.” I asked her, “What is a ‘Doing?’ and she answered ‘a party!'” So after hearing it growing up, I adopted the saying also.
Also, my father had his own saying if something got broken. He would say, “Something is on the Bum!” or “on the fritz!” It still was broken. And if he needed something, he would ask me, “where is the ‘Watcha-ma-call-it’ or the ‘do-jigger’ or the ‘Hoosetes?!'”
I don’t know if any [of these] are spelled correctly – I’m only going by the sounds.
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So Paul, being Italian, I will end with, “Forget about it!”
Thank you.
Marianna Cartwright
River Grove