Whacha doin?

Hey everyone, yesterday I realized that I forgot a really casual way of saying "What are you...?" is by saying:

"Whacha"

Actually, this is REALLY casual English so "whacha" might mean:

what you(ya) (here are is dropped)
"Whacha doing?" = "What ya doing?" = "What are you doing?"

what are you (to me this is the most common and correct use of whacha)
"Whacha gonna eat for dinner?" = "What are you going to eat for dinner?"

what do you
"Whacha do for a living?" = "What do you do for a living?" (job)



what did you
"Whacha do yesterday?" = "What did you do yesterday?"


what have you
"Whacha been doing lately?" = "What have you been doing lately?"


There is also an interesting English word for something that you forget the name for...


A whachamacallit!


This comes from the sentence "what do you call it?". Or according to the Urban Dictionary "what you may call it" from T.H. White's book The Once and Future King.
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whachamacallit)


Ok, that is it for now!


Phil