Some examples of the slang used by families.

Clicker, clacker, bleeper, telecommando, daddy buttons: the TV remote control

Jims, mijjers, jim-jams jim-jam-joolies: all common family terms for nightwear.

WFT: family shorthand for the bedtime ritual of "wee, face-wash and teeth".

Hooch, snooch and ganooch: second helpings in large, medium or small sizes

Duleek: the sudden realisation, as you lie in bed waiting for the alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago.

Skibbereen: the noise made by a sunburned thigh leaving a plastic chair.

Sligo: an unnamed and exotic sexual act which people like to believe that famous films stars get up to in private, for example, "to commit Sligo".

Embuggerance: employed by author Terry Pratchett to sum up his feelings of frustration at the encroachment of Alzheimer's disease but originally coined by a British defence official during the Falklands War.

Snotfair: contraction of the whine, "it's not fair", apparently used by academics to describe a meeting with students unhappy with their results.

Discompoosed: what children feel on arriving home from a particularly riotous birthday party,

Megeezers: a derisory term for over-cautious elderly drivers.

Regression: combined reference for the credit crunch, inflation and other financial alarms.

Egarots and slavomer: storage and removals spelt backwards '

Dwammy: an old Ulster Scots term, meaning you're not quite yourself, a bit at sea.

A McClatchy: anything small and anonymous, especially related to DIY.

Off to read Greek: Taking a snooze, an effective dodge.

Doot: any random object you want or have lost, as in "pass the doot there . . ."

Mrs Badcrumble: any teacher whose name parents can never remember, in homage to the Scottish clarinet teacher character created by comediam Eddie Izzard