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
Audrey Totter death in 1995. They had one child, a daughter. Totter died of a stroke on December 12, 2013, eight days before her 96th birthday. She was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea. Totter was a Republican and supported Dwight Eisenhower's campaign during the 1952 presidential election. Audrey Totter Audrey Mary Totter (December 20, 1917 – December 12, 2013) was an American actress and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Audrey (some sources indicate "Audra") Totter was born in 1917 and grew up in Joliet in Will County in northeastern Illinois. Her parents were John Totter (born in Slovenia with birth name Janez)