h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Does anyone else (intentionally) mispronunciate words? (or even missspel them on purpose?)

I particluarly *like* the sound of some mispronunciations. Especially multisyllabic words which can be 'internally spoonerized' like...

Optocus, Hecilopter, Claculator, Tevelision, etc...
(well you get the idea...)

I also intentionally reverse my ricochet words. (reversing the word order is know as "hysteron-proteron", but of course I'd call it "proteron-hysteron"... This gives rise to a slightly naive non-native speaker effect when you say...

Pamby-Namby or Nilly-Willy, Pong-Ping, Pocus-Hocus, Jumbo-Mumbo, etc.

Well. I expect I'm the only one then...

On the internally spoonerised multisyllabic fellas, I've also been known to use hecilopter. I habitually say tephelone and do enjoy this kind of playful word scrambling.
So you're definitely not the only one. Well, maybe you are on the ricochet words

I think for the hecilopter words we should really call them
"Spooronisms" ...

I like this i used to do this at school they were

Dont get smucking fart ya billy sastard .
Or
Oh you think your a cunny funt do ya .

The good thing you can use it without getting a telling from anyone .

Of course there was the 70's band "Cunning Stunts".

The ones I like are the unintentional ones

Erotic bowel movement

hors de ovre is one I purposely like saying

Ewww de toilet

are just some of the ones I like

I always call sicssors 'scizzers', and squirrels 'squidgels'- does this count????

It might not be 'spooronism' - but it's certainly misnoprunciation...

I sometimes say caltilator instead of calculator, which came from a young boy who just couldn't say it properly. I think a lot of these come from adults copying kids. A favourite spooronism of mine is flutterbys (a kind of pun too).

Kenny Everet had a character in his 1970's TV show called Cupid Stunt She was the one who always did things "in the best possible taste" (said with a flamboyant leg crossing movement)

Monty Python had a brilliant Spoonerism Poem which I only remember bits of. It started:

I have a gouse and harden,
An ace I call my plown.

and the last lines were:

silling by the windowflutter,
biny little tirds.

If anyone knows the rest please remind me.

BUTTERFLIES WERE ACTUALLY CALLED FLUTTERBYS ONCE! I ALSO CALL THEM FLUTTERBYS AS THEY DO!

Then there's the famous basketball player, Charles Broccoli

not necce-celery the best pun ever...

I've called people who broke wind Basty Nastards...