[HPforGrownups] Re: Put-Outer

[Terry van Ettinger]

I do similar things myself.  I've had things where I didn't know what to
call them, so I'd call them a foo-bar-er.  I don't recall the occurrence of
the put-outer, so I don't recall what it did, but it's possible that JKR was
trying to give the impression of something that people really hadn't
effectively named, so they just came up with something and that's what
stuck.

Terry

From: "davewitley" <dfrankiswork at netscape.net>


> It may be cultural.  To my half-English ears, it does not seem
> clunky.  My son has a little gadget that Lego supply to take apart
> bricks that are jammed together.  It has no name so we call it the
> taker-aparter.  I think inventions of that sort are fairly common
> here.  Washer-upper for example.
>
> I agree it is of a different type to Pensieve.
>
> Is that not true in the US?  Can UK people confirm?
>
> Answers may have to drift in the general direction of OT.
>
> David
>
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