Terms of Endearment: The Evolution of Nicknames
When my ex-husband and I were dating we were obscenely sweet and cutsie.
We had the typical nicknames for each other at first…“sweetie” being predomenant.
Somehow we ended up applying the suffix -opotamus (as in hippo…) to words. Namely, “sweetapotomus” instead of “sweetie”. (Naturally “hippo” must be a type of “potamus”, right?) Any descriptive word could be used (and sometimes twisted) into the suffix. For example, if I was cooking, I was a “fixopotamus of...
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