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Re: suggestive names</td>
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Benjamin Zimmer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bgzimmer@BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU"><bgzimmer@BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU></a></td>
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On 6/10/06, Laurence Horn <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:laurence.horn@yale.edu"><laurence.horn@yale.edu></a> wrote:
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>Another good example is the chain of bars "Fuddpuckers".
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cf. "You ain't so muckin' fuch." I guess metathesis is a common form
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of disingenuous taboo avoidance...
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Wikipedia's list of spoonerisms includes many more:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spoonerisms">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spoonerisms</a>
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Although it's not strictly on track I can't resist adding a piece of
Linguistic folklore from back when I (and several others on this list)
were young 'uns. Back in Generative Semantics days there was much
to-do about 'vice versa', and wandering around orally (I don't think it
was ever published) was the perfect 'vice versa' sentence (attributed
to someone many folks on this list know, but I'll omit her name as a
gesture towards the fact that we were all wilder then.)<br>
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I'm too fucking busy, and vice versa.<br>
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Geoff<br>
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Geoffrey S. Nathan
Department of English/Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, 48202
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