This is mostly me and Leonor…
It started with these…
putting the “anal” in “analytical”
putting the “sparta” in “aspartame”
putting the “sic” in “classic”
The word “meow” is in the word “homeowners.”
Chuck Norris puts the laughter in manslaughter…
Then it was abbreviated to these…
rec(i)tal
(c)arouse(l)
ju(st)ice
uni(c)o(r)n
a(wk)ward or aw(kw)ard
(hap)piness (say it out loud)
(c)antelope
We also like malaphors.
“All over it with a bag of chips!” (via Jennifer)
You dug your own grave, now lie it in.
I was just writing and trying to say “pot calling the kettle black” but I got confused instead and wrote “a spade calling a spade a spade.” Then I realized what I’d done so I wrote, “a spade calling another spade black.”
Keeping the “and” in “random” (aka miscellany)
co-local-ializms
“Making names into verbs which then become nouns was my idea.”
(Verbing nouns is a whole other thing!)