Bong Long O Gong

What? You might say.....but not if you are fluent in the Ong language...As far as I know, my husband's family invented it...You know how you spell things out because you don't want your kids to know what your saying or maybe you need to communicate a word you don't want them repeating over and over in some embarrassing public experience....Sooner than you think, your kids learn to spell and it all can kind of backfire. I mean, my Kindergardner is already pretty unnerved when people use the "D" word, as he calls it, (dumb) or the "S" word (stupid) and ,of course, the "F" word......(fart)....Eventually, you have to move to Plan B....or rather, Plan O...ONG....

It's genius really...For each consonant in a word you say the sound of that letter and add "Ong" to the end. For each vowel you say the letter as is....For example, say you don't really like the word "blog" nor do you want your children to repeat that you, in fact, do "blog". Every time you find yourself needing to communicate said word you can just "Ong" it real quick....Bong Long O Gong. Or say you need to roll off the "d" word or the "s" word as mentioned above....go for it. Dong U Mong Bong or Song Tong U Pong I Dong. Practice long enough and you can be rolling out full blown sentences and appear to be, in fact, bilingual speaking both English and some foreign dialect.

When your kids are old enough you can let them in on the secrets to your vernacular....or not...just be careful spelling "cold" in "Ong"...My husband's sister loves to get dear old dad to spell that in "Ong"...then we just laugh when he does.