Malapropisms and Spoonerism
Most of the grammatical errors of the 21st century are careless, and boring in comparison with the 19th century of Sheridan's Mrs Malaprop and Mr William Spooner, which are rich in hilarity and wit.
Malapropisms
Mrs Malaprop: thought does not become a young woman; the point we would request of you is, that you will promise to forget this fellow -- to illiterate * him, I say, quite from your memory.
* Obliterate. A malapropism is where you replace a word with one of a similar sound but different meaning.
Spoonerisms
Mr Spooner: You have hissed my mystery lectures. (You have missed my history lessons). With Spoonerisms you swap the first letters of words to make real words, as a result the sentence takes a comic turn. One side effect is that once alerted, you cannot stop making up spoonerism, especially if the frisky is running whee.
Perhaps you have trouble remembering people's names? We know a couple called Lick and Diz.
Mondegreens
There's a bad moon on the rise as - There's a bathroom on the right. Hearing problem.
Just call me angel of the morning, angel; just brush my teeth before you leave me." (Brush my cheek)
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