User:Jnestorius/deliberate mispronunciation
Some playful mispronunciations have attained a degree of currency without ever escaping the orbit of the standard pronunciation. They're not variant pronunciations and not independent lexemes, but somewhere in between.
Did the origin of bike < bicycle involve such a mispronunciation as well as a clipping?
Deliberate malapropisms edit
- mercy buckets < merci beaucoup
- your beeswax < your business
External links edit
- Saying it wrong on purpose Grant Barrett