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Emma's ESL English

Episode 245 What’s a Thingamajig? Words for When You Forget the Word!

22 Jul 2025

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🌼 Welcome back to Emma’s ESL English, still recording in my grandma’s garden—complete with sunshine, thunderbugs, and roses.Today we’re talking about metasyntactic variables—a fancy way of saying “words we use when we forget the word!” These are common in English, used by native speakers every day, and they’re surprisingly useful for language learners too.In this video, you’ll learn:- Popular “filler” words like thingy, whatchamacallit, doohickey, and more- How native speakers deal with memory blanks in everyday conversation- Why it’s OK to make up words when you’re stuck (and how people will still understand you)🗨️ Tell me in the comments: What do YOU say when you forget a word in your language? Share your favourite filler words and let’s compare across cultures.💬 Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and share—especially if this helped make English feel a bit easier.#LearnEnglish, #ESLFun, #EnglishTips, #Whatchamacallit, #RealEnglish, #EnglishSpeaking, #SpeakNaturally, #EnglishFillerWords, #EmmaESLEnglish

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