717 - Words that Sound Funny
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Use these tricks to get a laugh.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:05.0 | Grammar girl here, I'm Vinyan Fogarty, |
| 0:06.9 | and you can think of me as your friendly guide |
| 0:09.2 | to the English language, writing history, |
| 0:11.8 | rules, and cool stuff. |
| 0:13.7 | Today, we'll talk about words that are inherently funny |
| 0:17.2 | and dig into the word Malif Lewis |
| 0:19.4 | after a caller uses it in a family-legged story. |
| 0:24.9 | And now on to funny words by Kevin Cummings. |
| 0:28.2 | He writes, |
| 0:29.6 | I had my first comedy hit with the phrase |
| 0:32.3 | Iddybitty Kidneys. |
| 0:34.0 | Of course, the audience was my eight-month-old son |
| 0:36.7 | so it wasn't much of a hit, |
| 0:38.2 | but every time I uttered those magic words, |
| 0:41.2 | he'd laugh until he couldn't breathe. |
| 0:43.7 | Similar phrases, including Iddybitty fingers, |
| 0:46.4 | Iddybitty toes, |
| 0:47.8 | and the rarely amusing, |
| 0:49.5 | Iddybitty latissimus dorsi |
| 0:52.0 | never had the same comedic effect. |
| 0:54.9 | I didn't know it at the time, |
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