{"id":2628,"date":"1998-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/05\/11\/sspooner-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T20:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T04:31:47","slug":"sspooner-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/05\/11\/sspooner-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"ss: Toffee or Key? (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>Pierre provides some English contrepet tongue twisters from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uebersetzung.at\/twister\">International Collection of Tongue Twisters<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>I am not a pheasant plucker,<br \/>\r\nI'm a pheasant plucker's son<br \/>\r\nbut I'll be plucking pheasants<br \/>\r\nWhen the pheasant plucker's gone.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.<br \/>\r\nAll day long she sits and shines,<br \/>\r\nall day long she shines and sits,<br \/>\r\nand sits and shines, and shines and sits,<br \/>\r\nand sits and shines, and shines and sits.<br \/>\r\nSuzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.<br \/>\r\nAll day long he fits and tucks,<br \/>\r\nall day long he tucks and fits,<br \/>\r\nand fits and tucks, and tucks and fits,<br \/>\r\nand fits and tucks, and tucks and fits.<br \/>\r\nTommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Mrs Hunt had a country cut front<br \/>\r\nin the front of her country cut pettycoat.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I had seen the pheasant-plucker one but not the others. Pierre also provides a couple of non-English ones (the first, at least, is from the tongue twisters site):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Madame Coutufon dit \u00e0 madame Foncoutu:<br \/>\r\n\u00a0\u2014Bonjour, madame Foncoutu! Y a-t-il beaucoup de Foncoutus \u00e0 Coutufon?<br \/>\r\n\u00a0\u2014Il y a autant de Foncoutus \u00e0 Coutufon qu'il y a de Coutufons \u00e0 Foncoutu.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Los cojines de la Reina.<br \/>\r\nLos cajones del Sult\u00e1n.<br \/>\r\n\u00a1Qu\u00e9 cojines!<br \/>\r\n\u00a1Qu\u00e9 cajones!<br \/>\r\n\u00bfEn qu\u00e9 cajonera van?<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Pierre explains: \"You may wind up saying 'Los cojones de la Reina,' of which of course she has none.\"<\/p>\r\n<p>Ranjit sent this note to me and Bram:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>As I was smearing plum preserves on my toast this morning, I suddenly thought of a spoonerism to send to Bram and Jed.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>These items I subsequently dug up from an old file can't match Ranjit's, but they're pretty good anyway:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>My seals are lipped.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"attribution\">\u2014Paul Weidler<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Weed it and reap!<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"attribution\">\u2014Bill Pinder<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 31 May 1998)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/05\/10\/sspooner\/\">Back to column ss<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-llowercase-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}