Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. I believe I've said before that speaking and writing are. Omorose Panya grammar This podcast is truly hilarious! "I led the pigeons to the flag" is my favorite line! Now I have something to look up! Thanks =) http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=18541#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=18541#Comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:44:08 GMT eph grammar Erica's peeve about duck/duct tape is too peevish. The very thorough Wikipedia entry demolishes any certainty about the etymology. I'd just duct the whole issue. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=16288#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=16288#Comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:52:28 GMT Erica in Texas grammar Duct tape is actually a tiny pet peeve with me. It is tape that was originally used on heating and cooling ducts and it therefor duct tape. Duck tape is a brand name, not tape to be used on ducks. It is six of one and half a dozen of another. How many people do you know who ask for a facial tissue instead of a Kleenex? Brand names are a fact of our lives and no doubt the 'object name' Kleenex will out-live the company/product. Being aware that to pronounce the word 'duct' properly creates an almost full stop in the middle of the word, and even more so when 'duct' and 'tape' are pronounced one following the other, softens my disposition, but it is still a pet peeve. I guess I am hopeless. :-) http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=15717#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=15717#Comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:34:08 GMT Jada grammar My journalism class listened to your podcast about spoonerisms today and we loved it!!!!! You make learning about boring things like grammar amazingly fun. Or newspaper staff couldn't stop laughing. Sharpsville Area High School in Sharpsville, PA love you!!! thanks and keep on doing what you do. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=15445#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=15445#Comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:05:43 GMT Scot grammar An eggcorn can be the substitution of a word for another similar-sounding word that is not strictly a homophone. For example, many people nowadays use the phrase "butt naked," which is a misheard but logical-sounding variant of "BUCK naked." Then there are eggcorns that result from the writer's lack of knowledge of a particular subject, like "Reese's monkey" for "rhesus monkey." (Or is that a malapropism?) One that crops up frequently on the Internet is "here, here" instead of the correct "hear, hear" (as in "everyone should hear your words."). "Here, here" is how you call a pet. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=14581#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=14581#Comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:48:26 GMT Terry grammar This is great, I make these mistakes all the time—especially Spoonerisms. But there's something else I do quite a bit that I don't think falls into any of these categories. I spit out words that have absolutely nothing to do with the word I actually intend to say. For instance, I once said, "The umbrella in the C.N. tower is lit up!" but what I really *meant* to say was, "The elevatoe in the C.N. tower..." Much to the amusement of my friends. I've always been like this, and one of my aunts is the same. Is this an unusual phenomenon? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=14318#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=14318#Comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:34:04 GMT Jennifer grammar I can remember running around the house singing "Sand on the rug." (Instead of "Band on the run.") I guess I used to have sandy feet a lot as a kid! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=13235#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=13235#Comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:00 GMT Mindi grammar Hold me closer, Tony Danza. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=12871#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=12871#Comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:43:03 GMT Michael grammar Don't forget that Cheap Trick told us, "The dream police, they come to pee in my bed." :P http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=12312#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=12312#Comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:35:30 GMT Millard grammar As someone who holds the meaning of words and their proper use dear, Mignon, you should know to use the proper title of people like President Bush or Senator Hillary Clinton (Episode “Between You and Me”) in your podcasts. To the ear, referring to such people simply by their names sounds derogatory, especially to people like me who write news for a living. (Bob Dole made a point of this to then-President Clinton in the 1996 debate, relative to the fact that as Governor Clinton the Arkansan had not referred to President Bush in 1992 as “president,” but Dole was going to show him that respect.) If you watch today’s Democratic debates, for example, you’ll have a hard time finding anyone who refers to President Bush by his title. It’s a fine line, of course, since Senator Clinton’s website is “Hillary” and politicians themselves wish to be seen as a buddy to voters on a first-name basis. (Democrats can point to President Bush embracing the W and “Dubya” nicknames originally meant as insults.) Still, thanks for the consideration. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=3424#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx?commentid=3424#Comments Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:39:11 GMT Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:44:08 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spoonerisms-mondegreens-eggcorns-and-malapropisms.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us