Aural Oddities and Insights

MY SISTER LAURA AND I DISCOVERED AS KIDS how fun it is to laugh at other people’s spoonerisms, non sequitors, mispronunciations, unintended double meanings and other mockable delights of the twisted and fallible human tongue.

Laura once thought that place in her college cafeteria holding the ketchup packets, salt shakers and butter pats was called the “compliment cart.” I thought the rest of us around the dinner table were going to spray milk through our noses laughing at that.

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