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Tootsie toes, twinkle toes.

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Other words for, or sayings incorporating toes are:

Phonetic research using lead chains in the vocal tract

Your name: 
Volker Dellwo
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This story reminds me of early phonetic research on speech production from the 1920s.

Eleven Routes across America

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PART ONE (Some Road Trips): Overland Tour 35,000 miles of Classic Blacktop East to West (1) Pacific Coast: Olympic National Park to San Diego (2) Border to Border: Canadian Rockies to the Rio Grand

Hey Toots- you wanna play?

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I am interested in the car being a ‘Tootsie toy’; named after the daughter of the founder already giving it a feminine origin. ‘Tootsie’ is American slang for a girl or a young woman.

Meaning of "Toots"

Your name: 
Katy Beinart
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Noun

Singular: toot
Plural: toots
toot (plural toots)

1. The noise of a horn or whistle.

He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.

Scale in Alice in Wonderland

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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a children's book by Lewis Carroll, Alice finds a key sitting on a glass table.

'Take Time to Play With Your Kids'

Your name: 
Shannon Roszell - Toronto, Canada
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'Take time to play with your kids,’ the ad campaign encourages. A recently acquired 1963 Ford Sunliner Convertible model would be the object of their shared fascination today.

"On The Road" book covers

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"I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous

Towards a futurology of the object: Part 3 - Replica

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We are making replica copies of the toy car from the stunt copy that we have.

Chinese whispers.

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Tootsie Toys made the car, tootsie is another term for toes, I started looking at nursery rhymes relating to toes..

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