Patent pending

11 October 2008

I’ve been putting a few things up for sale on Etsy recently: scarves and hats and a short neckwarmer that I finished off with the button that had needed adding. It’s a big chunky knit, meaning thick yarn and big holes between the stitches, but the button I wanted to use only had small holes, so I needed to use thin yarn and a smaller needle than I had.

As I headed towards Mum’s sewing basket for such a needle I mentioned to her that the button and the scarf were of different gore. And with that, I left the room, leaving Mum to wonder what had just happened: was the daughter inventing words that meant nothing and proclaiming them with great conviction, or had the mother simply been left behind in this particular realm of technical linguistics?

After a little silent consideration while at work in the kitchen, Mum came into the office to cross-examine me. She thought I’d made up a word; I was sure it meant something. Well, I knew what it meant. Wasn’t that enough?

Eventually with a bit of searching in the dictionary and thesaurus I worked out what I’d done: it was a combination of guage and bore. In other words, it was the perfect word. Gore. You’re welcome.

Posted in: being me, crafty minx

Comments

7 Responses to “Patent pending”

kirsty
11th October 2008 @ 10:12 pm

Crap, you’re brilliant.

I thimk.

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kirsty
11th October 2008 @ 10:12 pm

Oh great. Now I thimk whereas I used to think.

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RisibleGirl
12th October 2008 @ 4:25 pm

I have a tendency to make up words all day long- but sadly, my made up words aren’t nearly as cute as your made up words.

Now I’m going to stalk you on Etsy. Not sure if you get any sort of ‘bonus’, but I listed you as the referrer when I signed up.

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Sarah
12th October 2008 @ 10:18 pm

Thanks for the referral, I can indeed see it on my account. Now all Etsy need to do is decide what these referrals actually mean… I wonder how many referrals would earn me a giraffe?

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Rayne
13th October 2008 @ 3:07 pm

I totally knew exactly what you meant when you said it. It’s a perfect word!

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Tina
15th October 2008 @ 12:42 am

Sarah, for the record, I am in love with the neck-warmer and also with the rhubarb-and-custard hat. But I am also one of the many Americans being destroyed by the economic freefall here, so unfortunately I can’t partake of your knitted lovelies just now. Soon, though, hopefully, soon. I might even need to commission a neck-warmer in specific colors from you before I take off for graduate school in Durham next autumn…

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Suzy!
16th October 2008 @ 8:37 am

I knew exactly what you meant! Great minds thimk alike :o)

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