[net.nlang] While we're mangling things...

figmo@lll-crg.ARpA (Lynn Gold) (01/04/86)

In article <379@mhuxl.UUCP>, davec@mhuxl.UUCP (CASWELL) writes:
> In article <270@ivax.icdoc.UUCP> iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor) writes:
> >The BBC comedy show 'Not the 9 o'clock News' ran a song called
> >'Kinda lingers' guess how that was meant to be mangled by the watchers
> >(try saying it to yourself a few times!)
> 
> I have forgotten who did it, but I remember a song from a few years
> back called:
> 
> 			Cunning Stunts
> 
In the NYC/Long Island area, there is a radio announcer named Kit Hunt
whose first job was short-lived when somebody mispronounced her name.

--Lynn

alan@idec.stc.co.uk (Alan Spreadbury) (01/06/86)

Then there's the Christmas carol with the line:-

   'most highly flavoured gravy'

 (really 'most highly favoured lady')