Family Lexicon

Two of my precious daughters are expecting right now, one due to deliver any second and the other in January. In conversations with them, they commented how their minds seem completely preoccupied with being pregnant (go figure), which sometimes impacted their ability to remember or think of other things, or to communicate normally in conversation.

From that and similar conversations of late, we’ve added three new words to our family lexicon: pregaphasia, pregnesia and pregnasia. Allow me to offer up suitable definitions.

• Pregaphasia – an inability to properly use language to communicate due to being pregnant.
• Pregnesia – an inability to remember dates, times, people, tasks or one’s own name due to being pregnant.
• Pregnasia – the combination of symptoms when experiencing pregaphasia and pregnesia at the same time.

You are welcome to add these new words to your personal lexicon in daily conversation. Perhaps in a few years we’ll see them added as generally accepted words in the English language. If we do, just remember they were invented by pregnant Card women and those that love them best.

While you are borrowing words from our family lexicon, here are some more great ones:

• Hunamuna
• Rackemshrackem
• CNDREND
• Dinglefarb
• Dorklamation

What new words are in your family lexicon?