speech problems and word reversal?

I often will say something and get the first letters of two words reversed like ” I have to see what I will do ” I will say ” I have to dee what I will so” or words reversed… ” I have to cash my check” will turn into ” I have to check my cash” What is this?????

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A few days ago

Tatsbabe

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I do this al the time as well. The only difference is that I do it on purpose! Sometimes my guy and me will come up with such a good one that we laugh and laugh and laugh! My nickname, for example, is Aggie (which comes from the spoonerism Aggie Bunderpants!) I am not sure why it stuck as my nickname because I certainly do not wear baggy under-pants!

A few days ago

Rhodri T

It’s called Spoonerism. This is what Wikipedia says-

A spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis). It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency.

A few days ago

I’m sorry I don’t know but I think it may help to post this under the mental health and/or psychology sections.

It sounds to me like some sort of mental phenomena. Pretty interesting though – will follow your story…it’s pretty intelligent though that your sentences still manage to convey the meaning well enough, even though some words are reversed. Makes me say “hmmm”

A few days ago

-vBeRnI rOcKz-

i think it was a speech defect that became a mannerism

A few days ago

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speech problems and word reversal?

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