User:Jnestorius/deliberate mispronunciation

Some playful mispronunciations have attained a degree of currency without ever escaping the orbit of the standard pronunciation. They're not variant pronunciations and not independent lexemes, but somewhere in between.

• anyhoo < anyhow
• coinkydink < coincidence

Did the origin of bike < bicycle involve such a mispronunciation as well as a clipping?

Deliberate malapropisms

• mercy buckets < merci beaucoup
• your beeswax < your business

External links

• Saying it wrong on purpose Grant Barrett