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#709481 01/14/06
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I swear I just heard the color guy on the Redskins-Seatle game say that the quarterback had just become "master of his own density".

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Not totally sure, but I think thats a malapropism.
I believe a spoonerism is switching first sound of words

eg: taper powel...for paper towel

Guys I hunt with and I use Poonersisms all the time!


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The question of whether or not it's a Spoonerism is a Mute Point.


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Shades of Yogi Berra! His aphorisms are classics.

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... "master of his own density".

That's not a Spoonerism.

That kind of a faux pas is called a malapropism, after the character Mrs Malaprop in an a classic play, or a dogberryianism after the character Dogberry in one of Shakespeare's plays.

"Pee little thrigs" for "three little pigs" isn't a Spoonerism, either (I used to double my kids over by reading their books to 'em with this twist, but I know of no proper term for it.)

A genuine Spoonerism turns one set of words into other words, usually in a construction that makes weird and hilarious sense. Dean Spooner used to do it unconsciously � for example, "our queer old dean" for "our dear old queen" and (to a student being expelled) "you have tasted two worms � you can leave by the town drain" for "you have wasted two terms � you can leave by the down train."

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Thanks Ironbender $ Ken,

I stand corrected.

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Once I was on a jury in a murder trial in Tennessee. One of the detectives giving evidence indicated that they had found a stash of "hypodemic nerdles" on the premises of the deceased. Maybe it was just me but I thought it was amusing.

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For folks who are really into spoonerisms "the muppet frog prince" has one character who speaks entirely in spoonerism for the length of the movie, including singing a song.
It appears that there are a great many ways to mangle English.
BTW as a preacher my favourite Dean Spooner spoonerism was from a sermon "as I look out on these sad and beery wenches"


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I had a GTO in high school with a cocking las gap.





Now that, I believe, is a spoonerism.

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The question of whether or not it's a Spoonerism is a Mute Point.

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That just doesn't speak to me...
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Once, when my wife was dictating the grocery store list to me I wrote the whole list that way, unknown to her. We needed munch leat, fog dood, poilet taper,etc. Put the list in her purse and sent her on her way. She got too the store, pulled out the list and started laughing hystericcally. Said that people were starring at her like she was nuckin futs.

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My good friends Betty Swollox and Mary Hinge could help clear up this spoonerisms thang....I would try but I make too many smelling pisstakes.....


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Y'all are a bunch of fart smellers! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />


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My kids liked it when I Spoonerizd the oldie We're off like a herd of horses into "We're off like a horde of hearses."

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You sure did a number on the one in Pisa!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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That is a staple saying around my household <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.
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When I was a kid a radio announcer introducing a commercial for A&P Food Stores annouced "And now a message from the A&Pood Pee Store" I gather the phone lines lit up and it took him the entire next song to stop snickering.


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spoonerism: http://www.fun-with-words.com/spoon_explain.html

What you heard is an "ism" particular to that color man. Here in the south we deal with Dave Rowe on JP Sports calling SEC football. He says things like: "With this possession Auburn really wants to score". As if there are possessions that a football team does not want to score. He also wears out the classics such as "to run the ball they have to get big man on big man"....or "they gotta line up and get a hat on a hat". We call them around here "Rowe-isms".

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