Recently, I’ve been rather taken with the word thingy (stop sniggering at the back). Everyone must agree that it’s a wonderful word; a catch-all for all those things in life whose proper names are either unknown to us or whose pronunciation is clumsy.
Some of my friends use a thingy to change the channel on their TV, though personally I use a doofah and others I know use an oojamaflip.
In fact, our lives are joyously full of thingys (or should that be thingies?) It’s the corrugated cardboard sleeve on your takeaway coffee cup (it’s actually called a zarf), the plastic tip on the end of a shoelace (or, to give it its proper n...