Video: A Backwards Fairy Tale

Here’s more proof that language can be fun.

Nick Hughes sent this video my way in the comments of the post on spoonerisms, but I thought it was good enough to make sure everyone got to see it.

Enjoy.

Spun with Foonerisms

Lard chips are mind-explodingly good.

They’re not actually marketed as lard chips, but Good’s Potato Chips aren’t cooked in soybean oil or partially-hydrogenated anything. They’re literally cooked in lard, which I’m sure is what makes them the best potato chips on the planet.

What’s this have to do with language? Well, lard chips were pretty much omnipresent in my college apartment. And my friends and I had a little game of swapping the sounds between two words to see if it would make new, funnier words.

It was inevitable that we transposed the initial sounds of “lard chips” to get “charred lips.” And that just tickled my linguistic funny bone.

That silliness has a name?