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Odd one out

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Odd one out

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Postby UncleEbenezer » January 26th, 2019, 5:14 pm

Inspired by a post elsewhere on lemonfool.

Who is the odd one out, and why?

  1. Mrs Malaprop
  2. Lady Mondegreen
  3. The Rev Dr W A Spooner

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Re: Odd one out

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Postby AleisterCrowley » January 26th, 2019, 6:37 pm

Well, Spooner existed...
Another answer is Mondegreen, as they are misheard correct language and the other two are language -mangling

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Re: Odd one out

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Postby PinkDalek » January 26th, 2019, 8:26 pm

Mondegreen:-

The only one that has its own thread at the Land of Off Topic Posts viewtopic.php?f=74&t=14713&p=179716

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Re: Odd one out

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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.

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Re: Odd one out

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Postby malkymoo » February 6th, 2019, 4:57 pm

Perhaps you should have asked what did they have in common. Provided some amusement anyway, thanks :)


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