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Funny word stuff

Sunflower

I love malapropisms: similar-sounding but incorrect words, which sometimes have a humorous effect.

Here are a couple of recent ones:

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Have you seen any funny word stuff? If so, do share!

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  • 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.'

  • in reply to Martian Tom

    The eccentric landlady of a shared house I once lived in told me her husband was 'impudent' (impotent)! 

  • in reply to Sunflower

    Does that mean they never had sectional intercourse?  (nicked that from Spike Milligan in 'Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall')

  • in reply to Martian Tom

    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! 

  • in reply to Sunflower

    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.'

  • in reply to Martian Tom

    Ha! Brilliant!

    So glad I started this thread. Needed something to make me smile this evening :-) 

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  • in reply to Martian Tom

    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! 

  • in reply to Sunflower

    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.'