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Alex Berlyne, in Front Back-axle [XIX, 3, 29], finds it beyond understanding how the Hebrew word pony (which he believes to be borrowed from ponytail ) has come to stand for fringe or bangs in the sense of hair combed forward over the forehead.
I am writing to add to Mr. Douglas S. Dodge's contrepèteries , as he requested [EPISTOLAE,XIX, 217]: after smoking France's favorite cigarette for the first time: Qu'est-ce que c'est une Blauloise Gueue?
In Emporia, Kansas, “the basement of the Sacred Heart Church was renovated and Mass was said for Mexicans two Sundays of each month” (Beeson, Adams, and King, xix).
John Kahn's article, Lexicographic Quirks and Whimsy [XIX,2,10], which touched on the definitions of animals in early dictionaries, reminded me of one of my favorites, from Edward Phillips's New World of Words (1720):
The discussion of Spoonerisms [EPISTOLAE, XIX, 2, 17] should, I feel, not be closed without mentioning at least a few more of the classic examples of the genre.