Due to being sick I’ve fallen a bit behind and so this was just a fun lil’ #acousticonetake that came to mind as I pondered what to write for the first Weekly Challenge while also wanting to contribute to #fuc, and the inspiration was already in my hands!

I’m a huge language nerd, so if you didn’t actually know these references:

• I’m playing a ukulele with a banjo head and resonator, so a “banjolele”.
• The small salamander-like creature was an “ewt”, but people heard that as “a newt”.
• The name for the small red stone fruit is “cherise” but that was understood to be plural “cherries” and that made the singular form “cherry”.
• After extensive adoption of the Sanskrit game of chess circa 700CE, the term shāh māt became used for the game-ending move, now generally translated from Persian as “the king is defeated” or perhaps “the king cannot respond”, misheard by English speakers as “checkmate”.
• The word for ideas that propagate and rapidly evolve is from the Greek mimēma, a word which has itself become a meme.

What qualifies as made-up And does a wombo count (That means a word combo, which you prob’ly figured out) Does it have to be nonsensical, or make the meaning clear? I’ll think as I play on my banjolele For you all to hear

Think of all the new things That someone just misheard You might know that “newt” or “cherry” Wasn’t the real word Same with shouting “checkmate” in a game of chess All these words are with us now Cause language is a mess

Dictionaries aren’t prescriptive Add a few more words All you need is lots of folks Repeating what they heard It’s an evolution That’s much faster then our genes Contribute to our culture and create a bunch of memes