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==Kniferisms and forkerisms== As complements to ''spoonerism'', [[Douglas Hofstadter]] used the [[nonce word]]s ''kniferism'' and ''forkerism'' to refer to changing, respectively, the vowels or the final consonants of two syllables, giving them a new meaning.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hofstadter|first1=Douglas|title=Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Human Thought|url=https://archive.org/details/fluidconceptscre00doug_859|url-access=limited|date=1995|publisher=Basic|location=NY|page=[https://archive.org/details/fluidconceptscre00doug_859/page/n126 117]}}</ref> Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a 'hypodeemic nerdle'; a television announcer once saying that "All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor";<ref name="Simonini">{{cite journal|title=Phonemic and Analogic Lapses in Radio and Television Speech|journal=American Speech|volume=31|issue=4|pages=252β263|publisher=Duke University Press|date=December 1956|jstor=453412|doi=10.2307/453412|last1=Simonini|first1=R. C.}}</ref> and during a live radio broadcast in 1931, radio presenter [[Harry von Zell]] accidentally mispronouncing U.S. President [[Herbert Hoover]]'s name as "Hoobert Heever".<ref name="Simonini" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harry-von-zell-hoobert-heever|title=snopes.com: Harry von Zell and Hoobert Heever|access-date=2 February 2009}}</ref>
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