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Do you ever mix up letters of two words in speech? If so, want to share?
For example, I meant to say that I was going to "shovel the snow", but it came out I was going to "snovel the show".

I do this now and again...

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I have strange associations between words and phrases with the same number of syllables, which is kind of spoonerism-like - sometimes I call a frying pan a swimming pool, and I get the words kitchen and bathroom mixed up. When I write down numbers I often transpose two in the middle - someone says 1357 and I write down 1537. Happens all the time, but I know to double check now. I assume these are AS-related but don't know.


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Back in the old days when my family had a VCR player, If I wanted someone to fast forward, I would ask them to 'forward-wind' it. I think I derived it from 'rewind'.

05-21-2012 01:49 AM
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Didactic alert: should be "Spoonerisms".  
And yeah, do it a lot.  It's as if my tongue gets ahead of my mind and begins to trip up.  And yet, I can recite tongue twisters without a problem.  It only happens when I'm talking and perhaps too tired to pay close attention to the internal script that runs through my mind all the time.  It's a de-coding problem, I think.  
My favourite Spoonerism is "Riding around town on my well-boiled icicle".  Plus "You are always hissing at my Mystery lessons" is fun, as well!
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haha, along with spoonerisms there are some cool words i say, one of my favorite is when i say i am "confuddled". meaning confused, and thus its all muddled up in my brain.

it may also take the form of "confiddled"

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instead of exclaiming "son of a b****" when i am frustrated with something, i say "son of a chicken!" to the general amusement of all within ear shot.

son of a chicken may also take the form of "son of bawkaw! (imitation of a chicken noise)"

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Any fans of 80s band Bucks Fizz reading this?

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Sister does it too often


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This reminded me of a Kenny Everett character, Cupid Stunt Big Grin




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Another Spoonerism, on the occassion of the birthday of Queen Victoria: "God bless our queer old dean!" (Dear old queen)
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^In the cartoon How To Be a Gentleman, Goofy is instructed to say, "My dear queen, how delightful to make your acquaintance," but he says, "My queer dean, how delightful to acquaint your maintenance!"


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I have a tendency to say "Breast Fiend" instead of "Best Friend".

Odd thing, the spoonerism.


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AspieGrrl Wrote:
"Breast Fiend"


I've known a few of those in my time.

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