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. I always wondered if “one ill auto” was an intentional slurl (in the “to be illin’” sense).
How about mangeorge? It’s been parsed as man george and mange orge, and some even read it as “mangy ogre”.
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
I’m not sure if this fits in in any way, but my dad had a saying: “There Snow Play Sly Comb”
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
They give it as from the 1300s, which is too early for William Tyndale (1492-1536)
Interesting.
He was a fan of the old My Word! radio show, wasn’t he?
And the less said about Kosuke Fukudome the better.
I think you mean good old pan ache 45, don’t you? ![]()
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).
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.”
Indeed, typo on this end!
At the department store, men swear, women swear and children swear.
Nowhere is now here.
Philadelphia Inquirer headline:
Governor’s Pen is Busy
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:
Impossible= I’m possible
Wow, that’s a complete demolishing of the Chevy Nova=no va legend. It did give me notable, however.
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I already lifted Notable from that Snopes article when I double-checked the Nova legend too. ![]()
What about proper names?
Robin Cheatham - attorney at law.
The late and greatly missed British weekly snark-fest called Need To Know (ntk.net) had their “double-URLentendre of the month” classics like:
URL targeting those who “cut down trees, wear high heels, suspendies, and a bra”?: http://www.lumbermansexchange.com/