Language People, Language!
Does everyone's family mangle the English language? Mine does. One of my dad's favorite words was "equitisity." I'm not sure that's how it's spelled, because the word doesn't exist. Every time he wanted to sound high-brow he would throw out that word. I was never able to determine if he knew it wasn't a real word or not. My mom still comes up with some good ones. She once referred to the famous critics as "Sizzle and Eggbert", a pun worthy of Mad Magazine in my opinion. She also had a tough time with Regis Philbin. She was able to combine the four syllables in any configuration except the right one (Philbis Regin, for example). She also mentioned "James Earl Jones, the guy who shot Martin Luther." I fondly remember one from my sister, describing a toucan, "You know, the Fruit of the Loop bird."