Spoonerisms / Malapropisms

**bubblewrap** · 26-09-2008, 06:40 AM

I sometimes call our cat LARD (work it out)

**bubblewrap** · 26-09-2008, 06:45 AM

You can have fun with anagrams.
Did you know the popular? drink VIMTO is a anagram of VOMIT

**ailsasyl** · 26-09-2008, 06:46 AM

When Happybunny was wee she changed certain words we still tend to use them today.....
Coleslaw was and still is coldslop she likes it you understand and had all the school dinner ladies calling it coldslop after asking for it for her school dinner!!!

Butterfly was a flutterby makes sense to me!!!

Nickname was and still is nick-nack name

**lynda66** · 26-09-2008, 07:23 AM

we've always had flutterbyes and tubs of cold sores

and my son couldn't say robert when he was little, so he was and still is on occasions called robot or wobble

**Maf** · 26-09-2008, 07:24 AM

We were in Bali a few years back and went for a walk one morning...

One of the staff approached along the path coming the other way and when we crossed he said:

"You enjoy big breasts ?"

It wasn't until the day after that we realised that he was asking if we had enjoyed our breakfast

Breakfast is now known in my family as "Big Breasts" which confuses Amerians just as much as the original episode confused us !

Same holiday we were sat at a bar and OH was talking to the bar man about how he loved to eat duck. The barman was amazed. We thought nothing of it as the Balinese eat a lot of duck. Gradually more and more staff began to gather round to listen. People started buying us drinks and winking at us. There was suggestive talk of how duck makes your manhood 'strong' but in the morning all the ducks in the village run away from you

Duck spoken in a yorkshire accent sounds a lot like Dog apparently !!!

**Headfry** · 26-09-2008, 07:41 AM

a friend would always say 'fire distinguisher' she had no idea how much it made me smile!
As a sailor girl.....when it gets very windy i will often say to MR HF
"brace the main splice" it should be 'splice the main brace' trouble is I say it so often the I cant tell which way round it is now!
To me they both make sense!

**coomber** · 26-09-2008, 07:53 AM

one of my collegues had to have tests for cancer, My boss asked me how her Autopsy went

**FionaH** · 26-09-2008, 08:29 AM

My son used to cal fire engines wah wah wenges, and it stuck.

**MaureenHall** · 26-09-2008, 08:31 AM

Love them

Really made me giggle, something I haven't done for a while

Think I'll use the "brace the main splice" this weekend when friends come over. Talking about anagrams, and apologies for anyone from Newark, but that's an anagram for a "stupid person" (work it out, very useful at times

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**Nicos** · 26-09-2008, 08:36 AM

I'll have to ponder over mine!!!!...my memory isn't as good as it used to be....or is it????

My son used to say congulator instead of calculator

Grandma was mamog ...just LOVE that!!!!

There used to be an advert for Cadburys chocolate on the TV when I was a kid....rushing home through the dark and rain in winter - saying 'hot chocolate drinking chocolate' ....I used to cycle 14 miles a day through all weathers and when knackered, cold and tired used to pedal in time to 'choc hoclate ,chinking droclate' ( well it cheered me up!!!

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**SlugLobber** · 26-09-2008, 09:33 AM

Well, on an nice evening we often go for constipational walks, spotting flutterbies, squizzels and the like. My friend once drank a tan of cango, which still makes me giggle.

My OH works in the same yard as a paintsprayer who's clearly inhaled too much 'two-pak'. Sometimes, if we're feeling silly, we can't sit opposite each other when he's talking in the pub, for fear of setting each other off.

He's sprayed an old wolwo, has a Vauxhall Fontana, heard a nice piano-ist...oh I'll have to have a think, but he's Mr Malapropanist himself. Not sure what Spoonerism is, will have to look it up - will it be censored? It sounds wude!

**Flummery** · 26-09-2008, 09:34 AM

Not a spoonerism, but our lad (now 33!) used to like Dawn Flakes when he was little - Could't say 'c' at the time. We still call them that.
He also used to call lemonade Sivvy Pop (fizzy). These things stick don't they? No one else would know what he meant when Himself asks me if I fancy a glass of sivvy.

A friend's family used to call pink blancmange Stink Puff because one of their younger members used to try to call it pink stuff and failed!

**lainey lou** · 26-09-2008, 10:27 AM

My little girl always eats up all of her venchtables and broccoli (calabrese) has always been baby trees.
My big boy had his own language when he was small and some words have stuck, ticca pooga is orange juice(?!), fitch for beard, therefore my bearded Dad is often refered to as fitchy-man!

**squashysu** · 26-09-2008, 10:58 AM

I am terrible at spoonerisms coming out all the time, i do it daily! i get laughed at on a daily basis!!! only yesterday i was Sabbergasted!!!!

right must go i am woff to ork!!!!

but tonight i may have some chish & fips!!

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