Showing posts with label alliteration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alliteration. Show all posts

Monday, January 10, 2022

Trying to Force a Joke

I wonder, if you illegally took a loaf of German fruit bread from a store, would that make it stolen stollen?

You see, stollen is a kind of German fruit bread. And stolen is the illegally taking of someone else's stuff. When you put the two words together, see, there's a sort of pun at work, running them together like that. Stolen Stollen. It's alliterative too. That means it's sort of funny, and sort of a joke.

Oh bother. Me brothers were right. It isn't going to work. Especially since it would be difficult to steal stollen, as the powdered sugar topping which stollen often has for icing would leave a trail.

Monday, May 3, 2021

Alliterative Allowances

I like alliteration. That's when you employ several same sounding sentences in succession. It's sounds funny, and I believe that professional grammarians are warming up to it too.

At the same time I'm also fond of Spoonerisms. They're the famous phrases made popular through the Reverend William Spooner, where you juxtapose two sounds in a sentence. A classic example is when a teacher admonished a student, "You hissed my mystery lecture!"

Alliteration and spoonerisms are so much fun that perhaps we can combine them. Something like: "Oh, no, I'm speaking in spoonerisms! What a sad sight to see!"

Maybe? No?