UNDERTRUE – Wrong but not completely without merit<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OVERTRUE – Truthful in some ways but exaggerated in others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
YOUTHY – Someone who thinks they are younger than their real age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
None of these can be unique, or new by my pen. My father invented a lot of words, or else he learned them as a hillbilly youth. Dad words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KELLUPS – Ketchup<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SHPITAL (pronounced “schpeetle”) – Hospital<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DINDIN – Dinner (not one of his better ones)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I cannot think of any other Dad words just now. They surface in my mind once in a while, bidden by what mental associations I do not know. Things move so fast inside the brain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went out to the South Street Seaport just now. Beautiful 60 degree day, I left the winter coat behind. I did not play on the 180 POPS piano because some insurance company had a table set up right in front of it, for soliciting some kind customers. Didn’t want to intrude on that with my prestidigitations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNDERTRUE – Wrong but not completely without merit OVERTRUE – Truthful in some ways but exaggerated in others. YOUTHY – Someone who thinks they are younger than their real age. None of these can be unique, or new by my pen. My father invented a lot of words, or else he learned them as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8Q1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33979,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33977\/revisions\/33979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}