Reversonyms?

Fri Sep 19 18:15:53 UTC 2008

On Sep 19, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Mark Peters wrote:

> That's my first stab at a name for a type of nickname that is
> seriously neato, though I only have two examples at the moment.
>
> The first is for myself: My friend Leslie used to call me "Park
> Meters".
>
> Then my friend Brandi just told me about a woman named Mary Helen
> she called "Hairy Melon".

how about "Spoonernyms"?

arnold

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