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(OP)
I'd like to know what made-up words you use in verbal communications with people.  Some common ones that I know of are:

Chingus
Widget
Whatzit

I'm sure there are more, so please add them.

It was also pointed out to me today that I made a new word.  I was describing something during a meeting, and said something to effect of, "I need to know the width and heigth."  Ugh... my department won't let me forget about "heigth".

Ray Reynolds
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
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RE: Engineering-speak

How about:

Thingamajig
finnegin-pin

I know a lot of people who say heigth. Just for fun I plugged it into google and it returned a bunch of sites.

Just found this site on the subject:

http://www.unwords.com/

One of the funny ones "Reintarnation" Comming back as a hillbilly

RE: Engineering-speak

Doomaflotchie
Whatchmacallit
Bigolhammer
one-off:  I hate this one and never heard of it until We moved to this neck-o-the-woods.  It sounds so hokey.  Did someone misspell "one of" and then the saying somehow stuck?  I can never quite bring myself to utter it even under my breath.

Jesus is THE life,
Leonard

RE: Engineering-speak

TwnB, good site.
One that jumped of the page at me:

Quote:

9. adminisphere (d-mn's-fîr')
1. (n.) The levels of management where big, impractical, and counterproductive decisions are made.

JMW
www.viscoanalyser.com

RE: Engineering-speak

Chicago bolt (n.)
1.) A bolt with a kink or offset in the shank to fit through misaligned holes.
2.) A bolt that is smaller in diameter than one normally used for a certain sized hole in order to fit through two misaligned holes.

Due to illness, the part of The Tick will be played by... The Tick.
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RE: Engineering-speak

Otherwise noted as a bolt that has been chicagoed.  It has a certain ring to it -- eh?

Jesus is THE life,
Leonard

RE: Engineering-speak

Isn't "one off" a long standing engineering term that simply means "one of these".

I like "doover". It's Australian for anything you want to call a "doover". I think it originated in the army - some kind of personal tent.

"Imagineering" was the name of an Australian software company in the 80s. Great name.

J.

RE: Engineering-speak

While working with the Dassault developers in Paris we were treated to an "Identifcater"

RE: Engineering-speak

(OP)
The Walt Disney Company also uses the term "Imagineering" here in the USA.

Ray Reynolds
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
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RE: Engineering-speak

Any small electronic or electro-mechanical doodad used to be called a gizmo in the 60's when I was a young eltricronics engineer

Good Luck
johnwm

RE: Engineering-speak

Doohicky
Doodad

A very complicated design to achieve a simple function is called a "Rube Goldberg" design.

Through his "INVENTIONS", Rube Goldberg discovered difficult ways to achieve easy results. His cartoons were, as he said, symbols of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results. Rube believed that there were two ways to do things: the simple way and the hard way, and that a surprisingly number of people preferred doing things the hard way.

More on Rube:http://www.rube-goldberg.com



RE: Engineering-speak

I don't know if these will count, as they are dialect from my little part of the world around Newcastle-upon-Tyne:

Gan = go
Divvunt = don't
Howay = hurry up
Geet = great, very
H'yem = home
Marra = mate, friend
Hoy = throw
Nettie = outside lavatory (not much used now!)
Pallatic = very, very drunk (corrupted from paralytic)
Mell = sledgehammer
Yakka = miner (seldom a term of endearment!)
Stot = bounce
Stottie = large flat bread cake


Those who have so little to do that they want more of this can search Google for "Geordie dictionary" which will bring up loads of hits.



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Get it over with.

RE: Engineering-speak

Is Newcassle in Scotland?
One phrase i heard was "Weest hoying yon arras" Weest= stop, hoying=throwing (ah! hoy is in your list), arras arrows/darts was i right? or having my leg pulled?

JMW
www.viscoanalyser.com

RE: Engineering-speak

No, it is not in Scotland: divvunt gan upsetting me and me marras!

The Romans built a damned great wall from Carlisle in the west to Wallsend, east of Newcastle, to keep the Jocks out. Foolishly, we've let it fall in to disrepair.

I think your phrase was more likely translated as "Who's throwing those darts?". Not far away though. Where did you pick up that phrase?



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Start each new day with a smile.

Get it over with.

RE: Engineering-speak

On a trip to Wallsend.
The Romans did their best and built not one, but two walls. Atonines wall was not much more than an earth rampart. Hadrian was evidently more serious but no less effective. Offa's Dyke to keep the Welsh in their place was not much either.
I love that evocative term, "the Northern Marches" describing those troubled border areas.

JMW
www.viscoanalyser.com

RE: Engineering-speak

Deals

This assembly uses three of these deals on the left side.

RE: Engineering-speak

Every process has a gozinta and a gozouta.

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As old age rapidly approaches I find many things that once had names are now called 'watchamacallits'.

RE: Engineering-speak

Kiwikid, are at the age when you call your kids by the wrong name? or just at the point where it is your grand-childrens names you muddle up?

JMW
www.viscoanalyser.com

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(OP)
I had a Director once, I think he had about 6 kids.  When he talked about them, he always refered to them by birth order, "Number 4 has band practice, and 6 just finished her Masters."  He said the reason was directly related to his age.

Ray Reynolds
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