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[Geoffrey Nathan]

This MIGHT be an example of a morpheme spoonerism. These do happen (I think
there is a chapter in Vickie Fromkin’s old book on speech errors with some
classic cases). I don’t have my copy any more, but not only did past tense
and plural suffixes migrate to adjacent words, but sometimes you get
weak past tense forms because of the moving morpheme.

Or it could just be a goofy malapropism. Your mileage may vary…

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
geoffnathan at wayne.edu

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