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 Holly Lou Teeter Holly Lou Teeter (born 1979) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Teeter received her Bachelor of Science with highest distinction from the University of Kansas School of Engineering in 2002, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2006, where she was a member of the "Kansas Law Review" and graduated first in her class. Earlier in her career, she practiced patent law at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, and was a patent law clerk at Los Alamos National Security. She was