Solannisms

When she doesn't know the precise word for something, or an expression, Solanne makes up her own way of saying something. I never really noticed that with Maïa, who normally asks, "how do you say...?" And Solanne does it completely unselfconsciously. A few examples:

During storms, our satellite image cuts out sometimes, scrambling up the digital image before making it go blank. Solanne says, "the TV's not working! It's getting all crump'oed up into little squares!"

Pins and needles she describes as "little balls inside my feet."

She doesn't know the word for the air conditioner (goodness knows we've barely used it this year), so she calls it "the two-lights" after, you guessed it, the two lights on the front.