What “tum-tum” sounds like to English-speakers

I always wondered what “rooty-toot-toots and rummy-tum=tums” are… (Image credit: The Lewiston Tribune) Those mythical candies in a modern US Christmas carol somewhow evoke Chinook Jargon for me. A 1943 book out of … Continue reading What “tum-tum” sounds like to English-speakers