> Moo - Milk. "Would you like some moo with your dinner?"
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> Chocolate Moo - Chocolate Milk. "We have chocolate moo if you would like that instead."
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Heh. Our family often sees cows and cattle in the fields, when we're travelling to and from work or up north. Cows are, or course, "Moo-moos," and everyone knows that brown moo-moos give Chocolate Moo.


> Spo - Spaghetti. "Don makes the best spo sauce I've ever had!"

Dave makes an amazing spaghetti sauce that, aside from the usual ingredients, also contains shredded carrots, sliced mushrooms, and Scotch Bonnet hot peppers (the yellow ones)...

Anyway, my term for Spaghetti is 'zetti,' and another thing I call Pizza is 'za'. Cheerios (on the rare occasions we have those) are always "O's" as in, "Please pass the O's." And a single piece of clothing is a 'clo'.

Kind of weird, but come to think of it, it's pretty common in children's French to truncate common terms down to a few syllables and add 'O' on the end... Lavoir becomes 'lavo,' and dormir becomes 'dodo,' etc.


> The really odd thing is that they all use these terms the majority of the time, no matter who is there, and the youngest child in the family is eighteen now. They have many more like this, but I can't think of any others off-hand.
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> Don "Weird but charming" Monkey

Wolf "Methinks this could be more evidence that Don might be me spirit-kin" spirit