Is there a name for this kind of word trick?
Park on the driveway, drive on the parkway.
Send a shipment by road, send a cargo by water
Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie, A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
Bake cookies, cook bacon.
noses run, feet smell
And any more examples of this trick?
The best example I know is a “word palindrome”:
You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you?
This isn’t really a thread game. I’m going to shift this over to IMHO, since you’re looking for other examples as well.
I think I might call this a form of chiasmus . From the link:
I hear it in things like the Mae West quote “it’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men”, that sort of thing.
Your_Great_Darsh_Face:
The best example I know is a “word palindrome”:
You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you?
George Carlin had a whole routine about words and which order you say them.
The only part of it I remember was “it’s okay to prick your finger, but not to finger your prick”.
There may also have been some more ,well, subtle, examples,…but I was 13 when I heard him.
Peter_Morris:
Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie, A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
I learned that Cottleston Pie verse as “A fly can’t butter, but butter can fly.”
It makes a bit more sense because bird isn’t a verb, but butter is.
And it makes fun of the fact that the speaker doesn’t quite grasp the concept of a butterfly.
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
I’d rather have a free bottle in front o’ me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.