# Ever get two words/phrases mixed up in your mouth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559 "2006-03-08T18:19:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/1 "2006-03-08T18:19:08Z")
I almost bumped into somebody in the hallway this morning and was thinking both “Excuse me” and “Sorry” and my mouth tried to do both and it out came, “Scarzy.” Scarzy? She must have thought I was nuts. ---
**Author:** ![cardsfan1975](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cardsfan1975](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardsfan1975)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/2 "2006-03-08T19:56:20Z")
You got your tangue tongled. 🙂 cf’75 ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/3 "2006-03-08T19:59:18Z")
All the time. I used to have a really bad stutter, and now it’s much less noticable. However I still mix up words and stumble verbally at times. I think it’s a main reason I prefer email and IM to the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Doom\_Slinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Doom\_Slinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doom_Slinger)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/4 "2006-03-09T00:38:29Z")
Mrs. Slinger does this sort of thing all the time, and it’s so cute. Once, when talking about how she often makes fun of herself, she remarked that her sense of humor was “self-defecating.” So close, and yet… (Actually, I suppose that means almost the same thing as what she meant to say.) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/5 "2006-03-09T00:44:28Z")
I mess up “Thank You” and “You’re Welcome” I cashier, and say “Thank You” back to people who say it to me. When I’m out at stores as a customer and the cashier says it to me, both phrases seem to come out at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/6 "2006-03-09T01:04:18Z")
This thort of sing ras waised to a fart orm by the Speverend Rooner! 🙂 > **[Spoonerism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism)** > > A spoonerism is an error in speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words in a phrase. These are named after the Oxford don and ordained minister William Archibald Spooner, who reputedly did this. > They were already renowned by the author François Rabelais in the 16th century, and called contrepèteries. In his novel Pantagruel, he wrote “femme folle à la messe et femme molle à la fesse” ("insane woman at mass, woman with flabby bu... ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/7 "2006-03-09T01:15:32Z")
My best friend is responsible for a phrase that has lasted now for over six years - “maintignity”. He was trying to “maintain my[his] dignity” whilst controlling a videogame character, but somehow he managed to “maintignity” and thus a legend was born. My personal favourite is “obscane”. Nearly five or six years later I still don’t know whether I was trying to say “obscene” or “insane”. But I like it. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/8 "2006-03-09T02:56:45Z")
I did this today. I called mom at work, her department secretary transferred my call to another room. Some other woman picked up, and I was thinking “holding for” and “looking for.” I ended up starting to say “I’m hooking for --” and caught it. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/9 "2006-03-09T03:03:00Z")
This is sort of the premise behind the (rather silly) drinking game [Fuzzy Duck (or Ducky Fuzz)](http://www.webtender.com/handbook/games/fuzzyduck-1.game) I suppose you could play it sober but it works much better when not entirely sober. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/10 "2006-03-09T03:05:18Z")
_Me_? Nah. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/11 "2006-03-09T14:31:06Z")
I was talking to my mother this morning about the high winds predicted for this afternoon and how one should be careful if one is driving “on the internate” oops “internet” um, no “interstate”. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/12 "2006-03-09T14:39:06Z")
My recent one was with spray paint= spraint ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-two-words-phrases-mixed-up-in-your-mouth/347559/13 "2006-03-09T14:56:53Z")
It happens to me constantly. I have a slight speech impediment, so things often come out garbled unless I phrase what I’m saying in my head first.