When I was a kid various words were impossible to pronounce properly. Here are a few I can remember:
- Draclia - Dracula
- Ambliance - Ambulance
- Sammich - Sandwich
- Frankystein - Frankenstein
- Pacific - specific
Not sure what these would be classed as: spoonerisms? malopropisms? simple mispronunciations?
I suppose the chap who made a living out of this kind of thing was the TV personality who said stuff like 'take the hotty custardo and pour it overly the rolypolopud' or something like that! Can't recall his name but he voiced a character like this in a Gerry Anderson TV show - Joe 90, Secret Service?
I came across him again on the classic Small Faces album Ogden Nut Gone Flake years later!
Which words did you mis-pronounce as a nipper readers in whatever launguage?
Rar-gi-kicks and Efferlumps...Rabbits and Elephants
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Woodsy, it's been a gas reading your wanderings down Memory Lane. There's so much blog fodder in that subject it might be fun to wonder on down that path as well some day.
ReplyDeleteCheers Ed and I love that Hugh, Rar gi Kicks! ha ha
ReplyDeleteThe chap who spoke like that was (professor) Stanley Unwin.
ReplyDeleteI used to say "Dragula" and "Frankensteen" as a kid.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, because i was much more into them than my friends i.e. I was the expert.
I used to pontificate on Were Wolfes, Where Wolfes, Weir Wolfes and Wolf Men
ha ha, nice one Ed! You were before your time! Gene Wilder said Fronkensteen in Young Frankenstein didn't he? And a horse nayed too each time!
DeleteOne monstrous word we don't hear now is Ghoul. It was everywhere back then, Groovy Ghoulies, ghouls and boys. I suppose Zombie has taken all the limelight although they are different things.
Ah yes, cheers Andy. Were his words called Unwinisms? I'm not sure I liked his lingo to be honest! Did you?
ReplyDeleteYes, still remember his explanation on television of how a decimal clock would work!
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