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Funny word stuff

Sunflower
over 5 years ago

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!

Parents
  • over 5 years ago

    Around 1990, the cabinet member Edwina Currie was visiting the university to talk to the association of conservative students.  

    Demonstrations were planned and posters put up, saying .

    GIVE CURRIE HER CHIPS

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  • over 5 years ago

    Around 1990, the cabinet member Edwina Currie was visiting the university to talk to the association of conservative students.  

    Demonstrations were planned and posters put up, saying .

    GIVE CURRIE HER CHIPS

Children
  • over 5 years ago in reply to Robert124

    That reminds me of when the interviewer couldn't stop laughing after his "accidental" spoonerism when introducing "Jeremy Hunt, Culture Secretary" (later Health Secretary) on the Today show. It was so apt that the interviewer was James Naughtie (nominal determinism, as New Scientist would call it.)

    I only just found out when fact-checking, that Hunt took it rather well and thanked him for his "most memorable interview ever."