Fantastic Flubs (51)

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DATE : Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:10:00 GMT
Entered in Database : 2006-02-25 16:10:00
length : 22860106
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Dave Shepherd and Howard Shepherd play a voicemail response to Howard's recent rap of Beowulf. (2:29)

Howard and Dave discuss speech flubs: malapropisms, spoonerisms, mondegreens, and shibboleths. (3:45)

Music bumper from "Jona Lee" by Roomful of Blues (17:18)

Spoonerisms--funny sound transpositions (17:37)

Song: "Fairest of the Mall" by Griddle (19:27)

Rude word of the week: "bass-ackwards" (21:57)

Music bumper from "Tonight," by Zach Ashton (24:01)

Shibboleths--"pronunciation passwords" (24:30)

Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network

Theme music by Kick the Cat

time: 31:43
size: 21.8 Mb

rating: PG (Nothing much ruder than our Rude Word this week--but you wouldn't want your six-year-old to talk like this, probably.)

Categories: language, linguistics

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