Roonerisms Spock

We love silly humor. Puns, wordplay, goofy memes, weird inside jokes... all these things are right up our alley. But the silly game we engage in most frequently together consists of swapping sounds around in pairs of words, particularly the beginning consonant sounds.

Some examples: 

• squeaky pencil becomes peaky squencil 
• chapped lips becomes lapped chips
• blue shorts becomes shue blorts

If one of the words in the pair begins with a vowel, you just move the consonant from the word that has one to the word without one. Example: itchy legs becomes litchy egs.

You get the idea. We come up with these all the time, and occasionally, we drive our family crazy with them (inadvertently, of course). Though we've enjoyed doing this for about as far back as we can remember, the frequency with which we spew out these mixed up pairs of words has increased recently, especially since we found out that there is actually a term for them. They're called spoonerisms.

Some of our all-time favorite spoonerisms we've come up with include:

• buttermilk scones ---> scuttermilk bones
• my phone is buzzing ---> my bone is phuzzing
• digging into my shoulder ---> shigging into my doulder
• jiggling belly ---> biggling jelly

To clarify, the pronunciations of the consonants in question are never changed when they're shifted, even if phonics would dictate otherwise with the new letter combinations.

A word of caution: Thinking before you speak is always wise, and coming up with spoonerisms is no exception. When you're constantly mixing up letters in words, it's inevitable that at some point, you're going to stumble across something that doesn't fall under the PG rating/something that you don't want coming out of your mouth. ;)

Now that we've given you a little insight into just how weird we really are, tell us what sort of silly things you like to do for laughs!