Citations:kniferism

English citations of kniferism

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2008, Douglas Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern, Hachette, →ISBN, page 541:
For instance, “pan-gloss” could become “pang-loss” by regrouping, which could then by spoonerism become “lang-poss”, and so on. Forkerism and kniferism (like spoonerism, only different) are the other types of recombination mechanisms, as are sporkerism and foonerism.
2012 February 27, Debra Aarons, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32:
... kniferism and forkerism (terms coined by Douglas Hofstadter using a spurious backformation to claim that these are complements to spoonerism) to refer, respectively to the switching of the nucleus between two words, and the switching of
2015 November 20, A. Brunneis, The Boulevards of Extinction, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 148:
... Kniferism cutting off the beginning, middle, or end of the words in a phrase or sentence and running them together—a portmanteau articulated with a speech disorder. These slips of the tongue are useful when in a hurry. e.g., “i need to
2022 July 18, Jonathan Berkowitz, Tales From the Word Guy: What Your English Teacher Never Taught You, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 224:
... kniferism and forkerism, to complement spoonerism, to describe the exchange of vowels or final consonants. An example of a kniferism: the Duck and Doochess of Windsor. When a spoonerism is used intentionally so that one phrase becomes