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lek-si-kuh which is plural for lexicon, a dictionary. One of the meanings for lexicon is "the vocabulary of a particular language, field, social class, person, etc."

The quick explanation is I got the nickname lexica because I had a lot of easy to recall briefs for court reporting that I shared with my friends during our study sessions.

The wordy explanation:

When I was in court reporting school, we had our own language of sorts. I got the reputation for having the best, most memorable "briefs" which is a combination of letters that you use in place of a wordy phrase. An example would be briefs used for very common phrases like 'at this time, at that time, at the time' and people spit those out pretty quickly when talking. If you could write one of those in a single keystroke combination, you were ready for the next words quickly. 'At that time' would be 'tat' and 'at the time' would be 'tet'

Every court reporter writes a bit differently depending on how he/she hears the word spoken and the briefs they use to shorten the number of keystrokes necessary to take the dictation down verbatim. The more briefs that you have down in your memory means the faster you can take dictation because you are using less keystrokes. There are many that were given to us in classes, and then we would make up our own for difficult phrases or words. You just had to be very careful that it was something that couldn't be accidentally mixed up with the impression on your steno tape made before or after it. For some reason, they came very easily to me and I would share them during our lunch breaks. Well, not just me, we all did, but I was given that nickname as a joke because I usually brought pages full to share.

I also had a lengthy list of mnemonics to remember all the medical and legal terms we were required to know. Like the word "supine" means to lie facing upwards, flat on one's back or holding your hand facing up or prone, facing down. It was one that was difficult for others to remember for some reason. We were given a lot of terms with their opposite meaning, such as supine and prone. I told them to picture holding a bowl of 'soup' (supine) with their hand facing up rather than down, which would spill it out. I had a ton of these silly memory tricks and I was told by a few friends after our state test that they knew the answer solely because of mnemonic devices.

And all these years later, I still think in briefs at times.

Mackey's (Mack-e's) mom because Mackey is my maiden name and my sons first name. Not to original

Crack a lackin.

It originally stemmed from Adam Carolla...he used to say it on that home improvement show he had ("better get to crack-a-lackin") and I thought it was funny (became a term we use at home a lot to GET MOVING!). Then it was used here, I can't remember by whom, I think during a hair flip and now generally means crazy talk.

Honestly, I don't know if my username came before the hair flip or not (I think I joined in 2006) or if the hair flip was just the first time I saw it on this board.

It's my dd's name too. Very popular in the 70's.

Whisker fish.  

Yep, I was born in the 70's and was one of the kids that had to go with my last initial because there were so many of us

gmc wife

GMC was dh's last rate in the Navy (chief gunnersmate) and I'm his wife. It was also my license plate until we just changed plates to a 4-H plate. 

This has been a great thread!

Atomic Dog - one of my favorite songs from the days of funk! I still wonder why must I be like that, why must I chase the cat? (nothing but the dog in me!)

As in Civey rhymes with privy or Livvie/Livey? 

cycworker = seawhyseaworker. It's meant to be  pronounced all as one word. CYC stands for Child & Youth Care Worker. So whenever people shorten it here and call me cyc, I find myself sitting on my hands so as not to correct them. 

If you want to shorten it, cycw would be the technically accurate way to do it. In  the field, that's what we say - "I work at X as a CYCW".

And of course, you can just call me Tang, or Tee. I don't know if people remember from the old board, but I hate my actual first name (Tania - my apologies to the other Tania(s) on the board). I don't actually hate it for others... it's just in my case the pronunciation gets mangled so often it irritates me. And the real problem is I've heard it the wrong way now so much I can't say it the way my mother does (which is the proper way). It's not TAN-ya, as in Tanya Tucker. The first syllable is softer and maybe a bit more drawn out. 

MD scrapaholic...

I'm not a doctor but I live in Maryland. I'm crazy about scrapping!