Published on 12, July, 2020
I love malapropisms: similar-sounding but incorrect words, which sometimes have a humorous effect.
Here are a couple of recent ones:
Have you seen any funny word stuff? If so, do share!
Then, course, there's that famous Spoonerism, when James Naughtie on the Today programme introduced 'Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary' - except he got the 'C' and the 'H' the wrong way around...
Someone else did it, too, a little later. Seems it was perhaps more of a Freudian slip. Or, as a colleague of mine at work years ago used to say 'A fraudulent slip.'
The eccentric landlady of a shared house I once lived in told me her husband was 'impudent' (impotent)!
I was working in the north of Romania back in 1997 being driven along a twisty mountain road listening to Neil Diamond on the stereo - it was brilliant and slightly surreal!
Me, too. I loved Neil Diamond as a teen (still do, really). His song 'I am, I said' had me amused for years, until I realised he was singing 'I never cared for the sound of being alone.' I thought he was singing 'I never cared for the sound of ELO.'
Ha! Brilliant!
So glad I started this thread. Needed something to make me smile this evening :-)
Does that mean they never had sectional intercourse? (nicked that from Spike Milligan in 'Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall')