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!
Ditto with a social area called 'Our Space' depending on your regional accent it can sound quite rude!
Love it!
Ha ha. That reminds me of the furniture company that got into trouble over their adverts. They were called "Sofa King"; almost certainly on purpose so that they could use the strap-line "Our prices are Sofa King low!"
They're all over the place. Usually they're neurotypicals!
Haha! We have a local radio station which has a strap-line announcement that I always hear the wrong way:
"Always bringing you the biggest hits in Kent."
Try saying 'biggest hits' quickly and you'll see what I mean!
Theres a Nob End near me
This is dead funny!
"I’m half asleep, pushing my trolley round the supermarket listening to an announcement about different services the store has to offer, pharmacy, post office, etc. When I hear, ‘... and why not visit our in-store mortician.’ Took me a while to realise she said, ‘optician.’ "
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Is a jilted bridegroom debrided?
I suppose if they were decimated, it would at least narrow the gap a bit!
That is brilliant!
I don't support capital punishment - but I wouldn't mind seeing a few neurotypicals decapitated. Or even just deducted.
I wonder if having a pop at Hamlet could be regarded as disdain...
"Crash Blossoms" comes from the headline "Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms". The journalist writing about it realised that the phenomenon didn't have a name, and thought that "crash blossoms" seemed quite fitting.
Some of the other kinds of word errors got their names in a similar way. For example, misheard song lyrics are known as "Mondegreens" after someone who misheard "Laid him on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen". And other misheard words are known as "egg-corns" if they're poetically apt; a mishearing of "acorns", which, like an egg, something grows from.
I do hope all this larking about doesn't lead to the forum being dismembered!
Funny place names, too?! We're really being spoiled here! I can while away hours with a map looking for them!
The rudest one that I've visited is Twatt - a little hamlet on the largest of the Orkney Isles.
"A*se" (* = "R", of course!) used to be quite common in topographic names until the Victorian map-makers came along and cleaned them all up. Not far from here there's a "Deep A*se" (it's apparently still called that on the deeds, but is "Deep House" on recent maps). From below, the edge of the scarp there has a perfect pair of buttocks and bum-crack. England's biggest cave mouth, now known as boring old "Peak Cavern", was traditionally called "The Devil's A*sehole"; partly because when the water levels are just right, it makes farting noises!
Not far from here, around Thornton where the Bronte sisters were born, there are some very strange names among the little hamlets built when the stone quarries were opened during the Napoleonic Wars. Moscow and Egypt are both within walking distance. Sadly, though rather fittingly, the Walls of Jericho (huge retaining walls keeping the quarry tippings back from the road) were knocked down by the council (ironically, just before they printed a tourist poster featuring them!) My favourite, though, is a little corner of Thornton called "Who'd've thought it?".
Eats Shoots and Leaves
You can also defacate from your home country. Not sure which sitcom made that gag.....
That's the best so far!