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82Book Review: Runny Babbit by Shel Silverstein
Runny Babbit lent to wunch And heard the saitress way, “We have some lovely stabbit rew—I Our Special for today.” So if you say, “Let’s bead a rook That’s billy as can se,” ...
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82Spoonerisms: Tongue-tied Tales and Fables
What's a spoonerism, you might ask? If you were to rephrase that question, "sput's a woonerism," then it would be obvious you're already familiar with these phonetic manglings nicknamed after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, who had a knack for turning the English language on its ear.
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75Spoonerisms: Twisted Tongues and Mangled Words
A spoonerism is “the accidental transposition of initial sounds or syllables of two words, usually with humorous results, as roaring pain for pouring rain.” The word is derived from Dr. William...
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60A Tip of the Slung
Even the most articulate speakers have experienced slips of the tongue involving a transposition of letters or words. “Peas and carrots,” for example, somehow comes out as "keys and parrots." A...
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76Spoonerisms
A slightly naughty look at a funny spay of weaking? Speak of waying? Whatever!
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64Is Spoonerism a Real Word?
According to Dictionary.com, the Word of the Day for March 23, 2009 is Spoonerism. This funny sounding word is actually the name of something we all have done when speaking. The word comes from the name of a...
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61Mile 93
Mile Ninety-Three On June 1, 2008 I lined up my bicycle with other Team In Training members behind the North Texas Chapter at the starting line in Stateline, Nevada for America’s Most Beautiful Bike...
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58The Road To Montauk
The Road To Montauk It was 6:30am on May 18th and I was standing in the Babylon Train Station Parking lot with my spandex-padded butt-cycling shorts, helmet, cycling shoes, Team In Training Long...
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59Tolden Goad(TM)and the Goothless Allitator
> > Tolden Goad and the Goothless Allitator ©2009 CC Riter > One day as Tolden Goad was alopping hong the banks of the melly smuddy swamp seeking a borsel for his melly. He decided to...
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