Seesaw a "teeter-totter". According to linguist Peter Trudgill, the term originates from the Nordic language word "tittermatorter". A "teeter-totter" may also refer to a two-person swing on a swing seat, on which two children sit facing each other and the teeter-totter swings back and forth in a pendulum motion. Both "teeter-totter" (from "teeter", as in "to teeter on the edge") and "seesaw" (from the verb "saw") demonstrate the linguistic process called reduplication, where a word or syllable is doubled, often with a different vowel. Reduplication is typical of words that indicate repeated activity, such as riding up and down on a
Holly Lou Teeter hired as a law clerk to Judge Carlos Murguia of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas in 2011 and to Judge Brian C. Wimes of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri in 2013. In 2016, Teeter was hired by United States Attorney Tammy Dickinson to serve as a Civil Assistant United States Attorney for Western District of Missouri. Teeter worked at the United States Department of Justice until becoming a judge. On August 3, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Teeter to serve as a United States District Judge of the United