Monday's post got me on started on a trip down memory lane, forgive me another indulgent look back.
Ever have the trouble where your mind goes faster than your mouth can keep up? Happens to me all the time, resulting in fun smash words such as mawnlower.
I think the technical term is to call it a spoonerism. The Tory Steller at the annual Minnesota Rennaisannce Fair is one of my favorite shows to catch.
Growing up, we didn't so much do spoonerisms as we did outright substitution or manglation*, resulting in words we used that would mistify anyone outside the family.
"Back forward the tape! Back forward the tape!" my sister would scream excitedly at the TV if we needed to rewind and watch the scene again on the VCR.
"Obessies! I want obessies!" says my childhood self, referring, of course, to strawberries. Duh!
Re-raser (eraser), cubboard (cupboard), festibal (fesival) and the infamous memunk (chimpmonk) were some of my sister's.
I'm not sure how "honeyfrog" tranlsated to treefrog but that's what it was called in my youthful mind.
And to this day, I have to think before I can say nail polish correctly. My BFF speaks my childhood tongue very well and so she understands what I mean when I say, "Hand me the green paint nolish, will ya?"
*Manglation, to my knowledge, is NOT a word, except here where Scrabble laws don't apply.
4 comments:
OMG the honeyfrog. Sweet little hopper.
I still say paint nolish all the time!! However, I do not have a childhood bff around who knows what I am talking about so I just get weird looks :)
They are now and forever will called 'sammiches' in our house.
Oh yes, the glory of sammiches! But I also hear this rumor that you get to eat something awesome called "perogies"...!
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