Citations:kniferism

English citations of kniferism

• 2008, Douglas Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern, Hachette, →ISBN, page 541:

  For instance, “pan-gloss” could become “pang-loss” by regrouping, which could then by spoonerism become “lang-poss”, and so on. Forkerism and kniferism (like spoonerism, only different) are the other types of recombination mechanisms, as are sporkerism and foonerism.

• 2012 February 27, Debra Aarons, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32:

  ... kniferism and forkerism (terms coined by Douglas Hofstadter using a spurious backformation to claim that these are complements to spoonerism) to refer, respectively to the switching of the nucleus between two words, and the switching of […]

• 2022 July 18, Jonathan Berkowitz, Tales From the Word Guy: What Your English Teacher Never Taught You, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 224:

  ... kniferism and forkerism, to complement spoonerism, to describe the exchange of vowels or final consonants. An example of a kniferism: the Duck and Doochess of Windsor. When a spoonerism is used intentionally so that one phrase becomes […]

• 2015 November 20, A. Brunneis, The Boulevards of Extinction, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 148:

  ... Kniferism cutting off the beginning, middle, or end of the words in a phrase or sentence and running them together—a portmanteau articulated with a speech disorder. These slips of the tongue are useful when in a hurry. e.g., “i need to […]