# Therapist=The Rapist- Other words like this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 25, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320 "2011-07-25T22:41:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/41 "2011-07-26T15:56:34Z")
When I lived in Kansas City I often saw license plate frames on cars purchased from a local dealership named O’Neill Auto, displaying the company’s web url [www.oneillauto.com](http://www.oneillauto.com). I always wondered if “one ill auto” was an intentional slurl (in the “to be illin’” sense). ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/42 "2011-07-26T16:03:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Also **thinksnow / think snow / thinks now** How about **mangeorge**? It’s been parsed as **man george** and **mange orge** , and some even read it as “mangy ogre”. ---
**Author:** ![aesop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@aesop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aesop)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/43 "2011-07-26T18:10:34Z")
I actually tend to parse Mangetout as Mange tout. Sounds like a dodgy carnival barker… (no offense, Mangetout). My contribution is not risque, but “indiscrimination” can be parsed into 7 consecutive words: in-disc-rim-in-at-I-on ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/44 "2011-07-26T18:34:38Z")
I’m not sure if this fits in in any way, but my dad had a saying: “There Snow Play Sly Comb” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/45 "2011-07-26T18:40:50Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > Actually, they did. The words Atone and Atonement were invented by William Tyndale while translating the Bible into English to mean becoming “at one” with God. According to several online etymologies, “atone” does come from “at one”, which I never would have guessed. But they don’t credit it to Tyndale: [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atone](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atone) They give it as from the 1300s, which is too early for William Tyndale (1492-1536) Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/46 "2011-07-26T18:41:18Z")
> [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](#): > > I’m not sure if this fits in in any way, but my dad had a saying: “There Snow Play Sly Comb” He was a fan of the old [My Word!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Word!) radio show, wasn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/47 "2011-07-26T18:42:47Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Not a word, but a name: Former Cubs shortstop and current Cardinal **[Ryan Theriot](http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/theriry01.shtml)** is often referred to as “Ryan the Riot” by sportscasters who think they’re being clever. And the less said about [Kosuke Fukudome](http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fukudko01.shtml) the better. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/48 "2011-07-26T18:46:27Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Similarly, there’s the Straight Doper known as **mangetout**. I have a tendency to parse this as man-get-out. Does anyone else do that too? > > ETA: Rats! ninja’d by panache45. Well, that answers my question, anyway. I think you mean good old **pan ache 45** , don’t you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ecoaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@ecoaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecoaster)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/49 "2011-07-26T19:02:49Z")
Well, these are all thoroughly amusing, even if some don’t fit the criteria of my original query… I had a friend in college who believed “Take it for granite” was the right idiom. When I corrected her, we both had a good laugh about it. I also had a coworker who told me that a student had written in a paper “From the gecko…” (although the actual expression “From the get-co” is somewhat strange, especially on paper). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/50 "2011-07-26T19:46:04Z")
> [@](#): > > (although the actual expression “From the get-co” is somewhat strange, especially on paper) It would be, since I always understood the expression to be “get go”. Without supporting evidence, I assumed that this was related to “Get Ready, Get Set, Go.” > **[get-go - Wiktionary, the free dictionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get-go)** > **[Definition of GET-GO](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get-go)** > > the very beginning —used in the phrase from the get-go… See the full definition ---
**Author:** ![ecoaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@ecoaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecoaster)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/51 "2011-07-26T20:00:55Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It would be, since I always understood the expression to be “get go”. Without supporting evidence, I assumed that this was related to “Get Ready, Get Set, Go.” > > [get-go - Wiktionary, the free dictionary](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get-go) > > [GET-GO Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get-go) Indeed, typo on this end! ---
**Author:** ![hibernicus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hibernicus/32/2802_2.png) [@hibernicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hibernicus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/52 "2011-07-26T20:03:43Z")
At the department store, men swear, women swear and children swear. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Skinley\_Von\_Clipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Baron\_Skinley\_Von\_Clipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Skinley_Von_Clipper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/53 "2011-07-26T21:55:48Z")
Nowhere is now here. ---
**Author:** ![spikebrennan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@spikebrennan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spikebrennan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/54 "2011-07-26T22:00:13Z")
> [@ecoaster](#): > > Are there other words that can be pulled apart that have oddly ironic or funny meanings? > > THere are plenty of anagrams, but I’m interested in words where you don’t have to change the order of the letters… Philadelphia Inquirer headline: Governor’s Pen is Busy ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/55 "2011-07-26T22:27:21Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > For years I read “sundried” tomatoes as the past tense of “sundry,”–i.e., from here and there. It never occurred to me that such a word doesn’t exist. When I was little, I thought it was the other way around. I thought \*sundry \*meant ‘sun dried’ like Sun Maid raisins (this was ages before sun-dried tomatoes became popular). Shops that sold “sundries” I assumed trafficked in dried fruit. I also read about astronomy at a very tender age and thought _sidereal_ was a compound similar to _surreal_, some kind of parallel reality. I was a precocious kid who got ahead of herself reading a lot early on. Eventually my learning got caught up. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/56 "2011-07-26T23:08:37Z")
Impossible= I’m possible ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/57 "2011-07-26T23:08:54Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > [Yes, but no.](http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp) Wow, that’s a complete demolishing of the Chevy Nova=no va legend. It did give me notable, however. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/58 "2011-07-26T23:09:57Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > [Alex Trebek]“That’s ‘Pen Is Mightier’, Mr. Connery”.[/Trebek] 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/59 "2011-07-26T23:18:36Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Wow, that’s a complete demolishing of the Chevy Nova=no va legend. It did give me notable, however. I already lifted Notable from that Snopes article when I double-checked the Nova legend too. 🙂 What about proper names? [Robin Cheatham](http://www.adamsandreese.com/robin-b-cheatham/) - attorney at law. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/60 "2011-07-27T00:24:15Z")
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