Eileene dropped an honest-to-god spoonerism today: intending to belittle something by describing it as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153piddling and wee,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she called it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153widdling and pee.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Not only do the spoken but unintentional words have meaning, but a common meaning, although \u00e2\u20ac\u0153widdle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is more of a British expression than an American one. Wonderful!<\/p>\n
Only in the analytical aftermath does it occur to me that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153piddling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wee,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in addition to meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153small,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d could also relate to urine. Four words: widdle, wee, piddle, and pee, all on the same subject. I wish Will Shortz could use it for one of his puzzlers, but I suppose it’s too \u00e2\u20ac\u0153blue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for Sunday morning radio. Probably inappropriate for GAMES<\/em> magazine’s Wild Card section, too. Pity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eileene dropped an honest-to-god spoonerism today: intending to belittle something by describing it as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153piddling and wee,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she called it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153widdling and pee.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Not only do the spoken but unintentional words have meaning, but a common meaning, although \u00e2\u20ac\u0153widdle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is more of a British expression than an American one. Wonderful! Only in the analytical aftermath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}