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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Trauma
My mum, a few years ago, began to pronounce it 'Tr-ow-ma'. I'm assuming she got it from watching all those hospital shows, or possibly from actually being in the hospital. Or it could be a cute little play on sounds: Trauma + ouch = trowma. I don't care where she got it from. It hurts my ears every time she says it.
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 12:26, 2 replies)
Is she German?
That might explain it
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:52, closed)
Ha, no,
Is that how the Germans say it then? She is very much not German. And she only picked it up a few years ago. Crazy momma...
(, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 12:12, closed)

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