Fantastic Flubs (51)

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. (Mondegreens are celebrated by Amanda, the Bean of Me and the Bean.) (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