Or if you switch the words of a sentence around to create a new word? And are there funny ones for food?
2006-12-08 04:45:03 · 7 answers · asked by Ellen B 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Not quite sure what you mean by 'switch around', as this could be several things.
A 'Spoonerism' is swapping the beginnings of two words such as 'Cupid Stunt' instead of 'Stupid C*nt' (my apologies for the bad language, but I couldn't think of a non-rude one). This was named after an American Senator Mr Spooner, who frequently made such slips.
There is also, 'malapropism', invented by Charles Dickens, who had a character called Mrs Malaprop, who used to use words that sounded similar to each other but changed the meaning of the sentence, such as 'casting narsturtiums' instead of 'casting aspertions'.
There is also the method of 'juxtaposition', where words are moved around a sentence to change the emphasis.
Hope this has helped a little, and again, I apologise for the rude language on such a website, inappropriate but I hope helpful.
2006-12-08 04:56:52 · answer #1 · answered by SteveUK 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mrs Malaprop Dickens
2016-10-15 05:27:15 · answer #2 · answered by hathaway 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its creating compound words.
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/compoundwords_1.html
2006-12-08 04:52:44 · answer #3 · answered by morganna_f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that this is called an anagram.
2006-12-08 04:49:49 · answer #4 · answered by fbjewels 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
what Jewels said!
2006-12-08 04:55:38 · answer #5 · answered by Yahoo Answer Rat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anagramming
2006-12-08 04:54:59 · answer #6 · answered by David C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being drunk:)
2006-12-08 04:54:56 · answer #7 · answered by Ganymede 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋