Sunday, December 10, 2006

Tip of the Slung

A spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched, named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency. While spoonerisms are commonly heard as slips of the tongue, they are considered a form of pun when used purposely as a play on words.
Source: Wikipedia


When I read this, I thought of making some on my own. Also I blog it to get collective minds working on it!!!

Please try not to Google and put them over here. Crush your bray cells (you know what I mean now) and come up with your own!!

Just to kick yourself off, I write a few I could think of which would give you a “said heart”.

What I sought of thawing----------&---------What I thought of Saying
Let’s set it great----------------------------- Let’s get it straight
Wake a talk----------------------------------Take a walk
Deck the chore-------------------------------Check the Door
Heeding rabbit-------------------------------Reading Habit
Peck the Cheek------------------------------ Check the Peak
Jerk the bra----------------------------------Break the jaw

Ok, my thoughts are “wetting a little gild” here. Anyway, you would have “Caught the Glue” and so I leave this to you now!!!

Let’s make it “run to feed”!

Friday, November 17, 2006

Budlingage

A friend of mine had read through my posts at Peptides and given some valuable feedback (I am happy at least a few friends read it seriously). She said my writing is very "Indian". Though she added that these kinds of writings give a sense of connection with the writer as the readers (Indian) have the same sensibilities and a sense of familiarity, I am convinced it's very Indian, what ever it means.

For instance, she mentioned about my usage of the word dress for clothing which normally not used for Men’s clothing by non-Indians and purse for wallet. I didn’t want to change them in my blog as may be that’s natural to me and comes out when I write or probably it brings out the girl in me!!!
This conversation incited my yearning and decided to start a separate page on Linguistics, called Budlingage (Portmanteaus - Buddha’s Linguistic Page)

I want Budlingage to be a page where we share our thoughts, knowledge and creativity and discuss various interesting topics on Language, words and their usages. Hope you would help making it an interesting page for the benefit of all of us and thank you all in advance.