dc wrote:
dhbailey écrit:
That French example is a spoonerism, not an eggcorn.
I'm not so sure. "Ta mère" for "mater" is one. But "tabasse" for
"stabat" doesn't work. Besides which, all the definitions I saw say a
spoonerism is "for humorous effect". This one was committed, as all
genuine eggcorns, out of pure ignorance.
Spooner was a professor at either Cambridge or Oxford and he mixed up
his words completely accidentally, not for an intentional humorous
effect. That they had a humorous effect was what made so many students
try to get him to speak, and entered his name into the English language,
but it was not his intent to be funny.
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David H. Bailey
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