Spoon & Spoonerism
Spoon and Spoonerisms.. any relation?
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HotForWords,
My spoonerism goes like your cunning stunt.
It goes:
Hot For Words
Wet For Hers
TOF
The is a children’s book written in spoonerisms called “The Runny Babbit” or something like that.
One I’ve always found funny is the spoonerism for
“A Tale of Two Cities” which becomes “A Sale of Two… ”
you figure it out.
I would love to do this lesson however I jsy keep getting my mucking words fuddled up……
So Марина, what explains the use of the term “spooning” for sexual coitus in the side supported, rear entry format?
My ex-wife once got confused trying to say “sourpuss.” Instead, she said “sore pus.” That’s probably not a spoonerism, but it really cracked me up at the time.
Back in the 1980s, John Wathan, former catcher and manager for the Kansas City Royals, lived in Deer Run, an upscale community in Blue Springs, Missouri. My wife once got confused and called it Rear Dung.
Don’t know if this is true Spoonerism. But, my brother had one - “Bushy eyed and bright tailed”. (Bright eyed and bushy tailed.)
My Grandmother (that died and that we used to call Nanny and still do), when she first was introduced to my niece and nephew (that are actually called Josh and Molly) called them Mosh and Jolly because she was getting very old and senile, but also because she always was very loquacious, yet always had a great sense of humor in everything.
Mosh and Jolly (called of their great grandmother Nanny),
Shawn M. Norris
In the game City of Heroes/City of Villains there is a city area called “Port Oakes” Well, while the Fan-based Cape Radio DJs were making some in game commericals for an in game party they were hosting in Port Oakes, DJ Attercap accidentally said “Pork Oats” so they ended up putting that in the commericial, saying the event was brought to you by “New Port Oakes Pork Oats”
Origin of the word ‘Erect’ or ‘Erection’ please?
Please… stand up when you ask a question.
OOPS! Almost forgot to turn in my homework! How about “Queer Fish” instead of “Fear Quiche”? Or “Waterfords” instead of “HotForWords” ?
Marina, do you have the story of Cinderella in Russia? if you want a stunny forry spull of Foonerisms, try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaSMqttJSZQ
I guess if two people sleep like spoons then one of them doesn’t have to worry about getting forked?
I think you may be wrong on this one. It is much more likely that the O.E. spon was an old Norse loaning. Old Frisian also had the word spon. It is possible that this is loan into Low German from Greek sphen. the utensil meaning came about around 1300 and is specific to M.E. The spatula meaning was in Mid.Low.Germ. and coexisted with the M.E. meaning.
There’s been a vague memory nagging at me since this page appeared, and I’ve just recalled it.
When I was at University, there was a pub which was a favourite among the students, the name of which was a Spoonerism; it was called “The Boar’s Head”.
What is that a spoonerism of? The Whore’s Bed is all i can think of…
That must be why it was so popular with the student body.
I think the spoon ran away with the fork in “ancient” times………lol Gotz to love the word “ancient”
There is one known to Metal Gear Solid fans, where the game would say “Fission Mailed” instead of “Mission Failed”.
The phrase “In the tank”. I can infer a general meaning from the context in which it is used but I would like to know exactly what it means.
Here is my request
‘Ballbuster’
What a dichotomy. Men ‘have balls’ when they’re assertive, but assertive women are ‘ballbusters’. Incredible!
The phrase Hold a Candle to someone, where does it come from :O?
Oh and the Register/Password system you have on this site is terrible, Original account is Zeltir. The password I got in the mail didn’t work so I had to make another account :s
Marvelous on O’Reilly (sp)
Mark Twain used the word “blatherskite” a number of times.
Origin of the word BLATHERSKITE, please.
I would like to know why people says “I’m feeling blue” to mean to be a bit sad. Regards
O’Reilly was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She will be back NO doubt.
I heard the word ‘man’ mean’t a physical manifestation of the moon.
Where’d they get that?
Thanks
Just saw the O’Rielly show, good job!!…You look like totally different person compared to the first time you were on.
Hey pagedoll, I’m wets coast… haven’t even left work yet (I’ll leave that “wets” in, meant west, but it’s raining) I won’t get to catch the show on TV.
Have been Bucking Fizzy, & Onth Mend on top of that, Wore Mork keeps comming in. I’ll have to wait for the Oill Brielly show on youtube or the website here.
How long was the “Marina” spot on the show??
Oh, I’d say inbetween 7-9 minutes. She always makes me laugh….I think fox replays his show a 8pm but Im not sure. I have Directv and on the west coast too. No rain in SD though(I wish)!
“Доброй ночи Мария, хотя для Вас скорее вечер
Меня достаточно давно интересует смысл и трактовка одной фразы, которую постоянно произносит персонаж одного знаменитого мультфильма. Не могли бы Вы помочь разобраться в смысловой нагрузке этой фразы, если такова имеется.
Фраза: D’oh!
Ссылка на видеоряд с этой фразой: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=UO8QpRkOG1o
Заранее благодарен.
С уважением, Илья.
P.S. С приветом из России “
I did a video on the word duh recently… and supposedly doh is a variant of duh… here is the video: http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/01/duh/
There really is no other research on where doh came from other than it was first done by the Simpsons I believe.
I usually speak in English on the site just because there are a lot of people from other countries and English seems to be the most common language that everyone can speak here.
Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner, was traveling to NY and back!
Marina
how’s the let jag?
Марина, спасибо за ответ!
Был приятно удивлён, уделённым мне вниманием с Вашей стороны. Жаль, Вы не приезжаете на родину. Буду просматривать Ваш сайт, если будут возникать вопросы с непонятными фразами или словами, обязательно обращусь за помощью!
Посмотрев видео, я понял что слово DUH больше подходит под формулировку слова “ДА”, но в тех же Simpson’s, Homer использует это выражение явно с другим смыслом, чаще всего выражение D’oh переводят как слово “Чёрт!”.
Марина, не могли бы Вы более подробно рассмотреть мой вопрос, т.к. мне кажеться, что слово “DUH” и слово “D’oh” в корне отличаються по смыслу.
P.S. Простите за нескромность, но не составит ли Вам большой сложности рассказать смысл этого слова на Русском языке?! Эдентично словам: “AK47>A4″
С уважением, Илья.
Марина, вас не напрягает то, что я пишу, на русском языке, на вашем сайте?
Илья
I would like to request a word, Pear shaped for example in the UK if some goes wrong, we could say its gone pear shaped would love to know the meaning of this. Hope you can help HOTFORWORDS
Top notch video! Yes that is my request: TOP NOTCH, How did that start?
458th
A word: GOO
This is from
A Boy called Goo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkhXa1iN3nM
I just played that sucker six times, just to play all the different layered guitar work. Good thing I was already in tune, capoed two frets and schwing!
pfff yt is slow today….And wth is that magibon girl doeing ahead of Marina :S
I’m going to TRY to have some sleep -.- it’s still like 30°C in my bedroom
goodnight everyone
g`night foxbow, I’m attempting the same thing!
I can’t figure it out. How can staring at a camera get you better ratings than your educational videos. Maybe you should try one day and just stare at the camera for four minutes. We will still always watch no matter what you do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUohprNRUHc
You could try to hypnotize us. Stare into my big blue eyes. We would sit there for hours staring back.
Dude, check the lessons. Marina already did a “mexican staring frog” episode back when it was cutting edge. Made my eyes burn!
Cool! aLx posted the link!
I saw something on television the other day that in Japan they sell DVDs of women just staring at the camera like she does… so I think it’s actually a kind of Japanese pr0n.
I think men over there like the real young girls. Kinda sickening if you ask me.
mike,
according to wikipedia (see below), she’s born in 86.
hey, you did japanese pr0n yourself! ;P
capman,
Man over there can buy school girls panties in vending machines.(used)
and your point is …?
Are we going to have a stare contest again?
That was fun last time.
A mist for you and a mist for me first.
Prauns? Prauns are cool, use ‘em for bait or eat ‘em if the fishies aren’t bititng.
Ok ok - my lameness…
What is a prOn??
pr0n = porn.
b00n.
Marina,
Can you imagine how well you would do if you need this. Face the camera and just look around, close up.
aLx made me laugh, callin’ me a bOOn!
are there other code words I’ve missed?
XD XD XD XD XD XD XE Ooops!
Cap911; Joke: What are the three sexiest words in the English languge?
I am eighteen…
Ok lets get off the pron issue. Who’s birthday was it? It’s a very big and nice looking cake. I know it wasn’t your birthday. You have left us in the dark as so to speak on that issue. A lady never tells her true age. Does she
How can that be considered pornographic? It doesn’t even qualify as soft porn. It’s a girl staring into a video camera. No nudity, no sex, no indecency whatsoever. I just don’t get how it can for one second be likened to porn. Or pr0n, for that matter.
As for the birthday cake, I think it should be accepted that Marina is being forthright when she states her age as 27. I too had some hesitation, because she seems too well educated to be that young, but I think her looks kind of speak for themselves. She may carry herself as more than 27 (apt, since her intelligent quotient would reflect such an impression), but things like her very nice skin tone bely a woman in her mid 20s, if not younger. I think it is safe to say that Marina is an honest, upfront person.
@ Errin. Marina stated, I saw something on “television” the other day that in Japan they “sell” DVDs of women just staring at the camera like she does… so I think it’s actually a kind of Japanese pr0n. Actually prOn is in the eye of the beholder. What ever turns them on can be considered prOn. PrOn is not limited to pictures of naked women or people in different positions. Some people get off on peoples underwear or bras. No one said that this lady was doing it for the same reason. She is just trying to learn the Japanese culture.
As for the cake, it’s has been an on going joke between Marina and myself about her birthday and her age for quite a while. She finally told us it was in December. It’s nothing more or nothing less. It’s just friendly chit chat between two people who have never met.
Sorry to keep posting on your personal comments page. I know it’s heck on the e-mail.
Mike
magibon.
She is popular alright.
She doesn’t look that old. That’s why she is so popular in japan.
I see it, but I don’t know
what to make of it.
Pedophiles, maybe?
My Spoonerisms:
Donald Rumsfeld becomes Ronald Dumsfeld
A dyslexic cop would say to a criminal, “Ass, Freezehole!”
my word is tickling, or tickle torture. have fun! jason
Still no sign of o rielly vid.. Or me being number 1 comment…. Suppose there will be other days. Goodnight from england.69
Night James
How about a guessing game until you up load the new vid. Give us some clues and let us guess to see if we can figure it out.
Pick a pack…
Playing cards?
pickled peppers
Pick a 6 pack?
But it’s already past 6 in the east.
crowd? gaggle?
wolves
cigarettes?
What a great game!
Okay, umm… How’s the weather?
Here’s my local radar
http://www.wsvn.com/weather/animated_radar/broward _radar.php
of packed picks
It is only 88 F here in Montana
pack rat pack leader pack horse pack mule pack of gum
of doublement chewing gum
Here’s our weather.
http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/common/image s/locallayers/cities/KILM_cities.gif
Well something didn’t turn out right. so don;t click on the url.
Well you have twelve more slots before you reach number 24.
A long time ago one of the color commentators for the New Orlean Saint was a beloved former player Danny Abramowicz. During a game in the days prior to the 5 second delay, he spoonerized “punt coverage.” The resulting laughter caused the next play to be described after the fact rather than called live.
Hy Marina! My nick is.. lunapark. I know that “luna” means “moon” but can you explain to me why the lunapark is so called.
Thanks a lot!
Greetings from Italy.
You are great!!!
Or how about lunatic.
why is winking considered a flirt?
Because they can see you
have
lustdust in your eyes.Hey, this isn’t actually a word request just something I wanted to point out. On your werewolf video you mentioned that the “v” pronunciation was changed to “w” overtime. I just wanted to mention that the pronunciation never changed, latin v’s were pronounced like w’s. Only in ecclesiastical latin are v’s pronounced as v’s, because of the churches close ties to Italy. I was just bored and felt like writing this, I have too much time on my hands
When will the o’reilley vids be on here?
Any hour now… In the meanwhile, you can pass the time reading this important news article:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/10/activists- preparing-against-use-of-brown-note-at-dem-convent ion/
It’s all you need to know about the dreaded brown note, courtesy of FOXnews.
Tough to be “cool ” with a load in your shorts.
Ups the ante too maintain a civil protest
Isn’t that from an episode of South Park?
I like your article Errin, but I don’t think it should be used against harmless protesters. If they were caring objects to harm other people then maybe so. But everyone has a given right to protest against the government or it’s policies. It just tees me off to think that for every protest there has to be some kind of force used against them. Our society is going to hell in a hand basket.
I was going to mention the episode
of South Park where Cartman switched
the sheet music for the recorder band.
Glad I left it hang, Marina picked up on it!
Capman911 - The article is mostly preparing you for the onslaught of whinig lawyers, and their arguements against using non-lethal force to quell unruly and civily disobedient protesters. Your civil right to protest does not exempt you from the law, and is not a guaranteed right to disobey lawful orders, or put the safety of yourself or others at risk. Society has adopted non-lethal quelling methods in order to minimize damage to harmless protesters. If society was going to hell, people would die, not just sh*t themselves!
As a sound engineer, I think the brown note should be used on everybody just for fun. But that’s just me!
Seriously, I get a big kick out of these sonic cannons, ever since they first gained publicity after a British cruise liner used one to thwart pirates of the coast of Africa a year or so back. Thing is, you don’t really need the brown note… enough white noise at a high enough decibel rate will stun people without hurting their hearing.
On a side note, I really object to our Armed Forces using professional recordings to agitate or interrogate our enemies. That to me is a gross perversion of the recordings original intent (i.e. make an artistic statement and some $$$ to go with it), and our Armed Forces would be much better served creating their own recordings, which would actually be even more effective for breaking down wills, as pro recordings are all softened down by compression. Even a loud rock song blaring at high volume has been tempered via mixing and mastering. Using a recording not designed for agitation and interrogation is not as effective as using a recording specifically designed for breaking wills. If our Armed Forces are going to start using recordings as part of their psychological warfare weaponry, they should start being more dedicated and NOT use the intellectual property of recording artists from the music biz.
I left you a comment here.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/30/spoon-spoone rism/#comment-45354
Hey I got a word request me and my buddies were talking about yesterday. The verb, to sic. Like when you sic your dog on someone. I know sic is Latin, but the attack-dog verb does related to the Latin meaning at all. What’s the deal with “sic”?
I meant the verb DOESN’T relate to the Latin meaning by the way.
By my calcs, comments are high.
Now is the time to start looking for
the new lesson to appear.
Should be out within the next
three hours, if the past trend
holds true.
Who’ll be first today???
All I know its going to be a close one.
This dang computer crashed again last night. It has taken me all day until now to get it back to where I hope it will last a while.
Mike if I had an extra grand to spare, I’d send you a Mac.
I hate recessions. Im always the first to be hit. Discretionary income is what supports my business. Taking classes is aways the first thing that people cut in a down economy. 
Who knows me-lika-do-the-cha-cha! Things seem to be moving rather slow today on YouTube
We can’t all be #24 marina………… (upload now! upload now! upload now!
) I can edit it so you are number 1 if that would make things better 
Just made a “run through the garden”
over at YT and caught up my ratings.
Should be good for a 0.00000008% bump,
but it all adds up in the end!
Love ya, darlin’
ciao XoxO
How did you develope the 24 algorythm?
My math was way off the beat
today. #37 as of the time stamp.
ok - so first, Bill O’Reilly, then a
new lesson! Just like baseball,
Double-header under the lights!
WSUIT5 This is because by the time it is at 24 its at the peak. So I think marina said that thats the best time to add the new video
Smpfilms used marinas opening music… look at 8:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bXdKTDAa_s
This guy does a “mean cat” video I thought
Roadrunmch should take a look at.
Found it while trying to get some “barking dog”
bits to respond to tedt’s comment below.
No joy, yet, on that one
http://www.youtube.com/themeankitty
James.. I use music that people send me and some of the music is from loops that came with my editing program… so the reason why you may hear my intro is because these people use a similar program and happened to use the same loop that I use.
I’ll be glad when Ronald Jenkins releases that one of the guitar music from his key board that you use on your site form time to time.
Im a big fan of Ronald Jenkins. That guy if phenomenal.
That’s Jenkees, not Jenkins.
Hi!!!the word that i request is:Howdy!
thanks
Hi stefgabo,
I haven’t seen you here before. Welcome to hotforwords! Howdy is a shortened form of the greeting “How do you do?” Since Marina has about a million word requests right now, I thought you might like to know. Hope this helps. See you around the campus.
pennsyltucky9
To Answer
As i am a bargecaptain and of course a sailor before i often wondered where the confirmation “aye aye” on an order came from, also because it’s not country bound but is used in all marine based enterprises, whether they are military or not…. could you find out? thanks in advance.
Aye, Aye means;
I understand
I will carry the order out
SO the term Aye, Aye
sigh… again i’m a captain; i know what it means, i wanna know the origin….
zeilbeest, Some people don’t know how to read the entire post. These things happen from time to time.
Its all in their good intentions.
I’ve heard of barge captain’s, but I don’t know what that entails? What inspired you to get your Masters ticket?
For I was a Captain too. But I commanded a task force of firefighters. Loved the job. Hated to retire.
As you can see from my logname i’m not american
Does that answer your question captain Jack?
I’m from holland, and holland (or the netherlands as some of you know it), has the largest bargefleet in europe defenately, maybe even the world. Most of them are privately owned and the main business is providing the Rhinestates with product transport, either in the form of bulk,containers or tankers.
The other business is providing seavessels with the necesaries (food,water,fuel,luboil). I’m in that business… i sail a 700 ton heavy fuel barge in the Amsterdam,Rotterdam,Antwerpen(belgium) ports to provide seavessels with fuel.
Now you’d think fuel is fuel….. oh no, there’s all sorts… diferent centistokes (how luiquid it is) different sulfer content etc etc….
The nice thing about the job is that there’s always a challenge; figure out where the connection on the vessel is, how to get to it,pump exactly the right amount, getting there on time etc etc…..
So what inspired me to get my masters? Money of course…. if you want to make more money, you got to get the degree and put in the hours….. there are no free rides….
This clip says it’s “funny”
but I bet the guys below
deck thought the world
was going to end!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whHQaTYGAjg&feature =related
it’s raining cats and dogs!!!
here is the link for gods and cats. click it
My fav spoonerism: Bass Ackwards
Bass? that’s a GOOD fishy!
So, what’s your favorite contronym?
Every time that I come to your site, the word “cleavage” comes readily to mind. Is “cleavage” a contronym? Or is it only the form “cleave” which is truly a contronym?
I hope that you’re not chuffed that I would ask about the word “cleavage”. Or should I hope that you are chuffed? Wow, I seem to find it very difficult to ask such a beautiful woman so simple a question!
I know you did the “Cat out of the bag” phrase, but what about “the cat’s got your tongue”? That phrase has always been intriguing to me.
Can you discuss the origin of the phrase, “saved by the bell”? It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
woo nasty ( I live where the porche drive comes from) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2480068/Pas sengers-escape-injuries-as-open-topped-bus-overtur ns-in-Dorset.html
Здравствуйте, Марина, красоты и интеллекта, wow. я думаю, вы замечательный преподаватель. Как мой русский английский за человек?
I wanna know the origin of the frase
(in swedish) ‘köpa grisen i säcken’
(in english) ‘to buy a pig in a bag’
if that is a saying in english? I dont really know, its really common i swedish anyway ^^
well keep it up
xoxo
Marina posted this lesson
about a similar request for
“Let the Cat out of the bag”
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/29/let-the-cat- out-of-the-bag/
To get the answer lesson, refer to the
words/lessons list (second pulldown)
Dear Marina!!! Please can u make lesson about latex!! I think it is important to know about it. There are a lot of things that are made of it. It is very interesting. And another ask - can u put on latex catsuit . With great gratitude, ur admirer.
I’de rather be a smart feller than a fart smeller…. Ok, I’ll grow up now…
That’s a good one
I’m getting pissy with yt now.. Yeaterday I managed to get one of my videos to say watch in high quality. And the one i just did isn’t saying it!! Im going to try it on the one it did well in the first place now.
James it doesn’t always say it right away.. it used to take a few hours before it kicked in but now it’s pretty close to immediate for me… but that could be because I am a partner.
I have an idea for the website but I don’t know if it is possible. You know how you have on the main page
“9373744636463 views on youtube”
Could it be possible to have something like that, but with where it is on the most viewed list?