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Postby UncleEbenezer » February 1st, 2019, 11:46 pm
Damn, that seems to have fallen flat. Thanks AC and PD for playing, albeit tentatively and briefly.
The answer is of course all of them. We can put forward a range of arguments for one or another, and while some may be stronger than others, to claim any one argument as uniquely 'right' would be silly and arrogant.
Since I started it, I guess I owe the thread a set of answers, one for each candidate and excluding those already posted. There are of course others.
- Malapropisms are single words, whereas a spoonerism or mondegreen is likely to span two or more words.
- Mondegreen neither has nor is an -ism. She is herself the canonical Mondegreen, whereas the others are merely the canonical speakers of their respective -isms.
- Whereas malapropisms and mondegreens are real words misused or misheard, spoonerisms commonly transmute real words into nonsense sounds, albeit humorously parseable.