Bourke B. Hickenlooper

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:52 AM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM, <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
> >> "Bourke B. Hickenlooper" is surely a strong candidate for the funniest name of ANY US Senator ever. Other candidates?
> >
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Benjamin Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > Outerbridge Horsey. Alpheus Felch. Tasker Oddie. Homer Bone.
>
> Hickenlooper has a spoonerizing kind of quality to it though, maybe
> because lick is more common than hick.  Lick -n- hoop 'er...

Hardly know 'er.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=580


--Ben Zimmer

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