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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Local mother Nancy Culberson inappropriately incorporated the name of popular search engine Google and what she believes to be its popularly accepted uses into her vernacular this week, unleashing a barrage of nonsensical phrases and embarrassing mom-invented jargon.

The mother of three, who replaces most Internet-related terms with the newly-learned ‘Google,’ has begun using it so liberally and erroneously that her children are reluctant to bring friends over to their home.

“I wish I never would have showed her how to go online,” said Brett Culberson, 15, after his mother asked him if he had Googled his homework yet. “Last week my friend Tyler came over and she asked him if his iPhone got Google or the Internet.”

Nancy Culberson, however, reports excitement over her newfound vocabulary and said she uses any opportunity to show off her hip, tech-savvy lingo, often eliciting corrections from her children.

“We were in the grocery store yesterday and I told her she couldn’t use ‘Google’ to describe the self-scan aisle,” said Culberson’s 17-year-old daughter, Sarah. “She doesn’t even know what Google’s web address is. She types ‘Google’ into the Comcast home page search box.”

Though her tech language lacks in accuracy, repeated attempts by her children to curb her varied and numerous misuses have had little effect on Culberson’s abuse of the search engine term.

“After I Googled an email to my friend in Kentucky, I went to Yahoo and did a Google for ‘those funny pictures of cats,’” said Culberson, who is especially pleased with the new books her son Googled for her from Amazon.com. “I hope all this time spent Googling won’t increase our computer bill this month.”