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Over the years and especially recently, in connection with the publication of the vast Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America (Omnigraphics, 1991) [ XVIII , 2], contributors have commented on the curious and funny names one can find in almost any listing of place names.
I enjoyed Robert Archibald Ford's article on spoonerisms, Learn to Spike Lunars [ XVIII , 4].
Although Freud, so far as I know, did not discuss Spoonerisms on his classic analysis of slips-of-the-tongue, his theories as to the psychoanalytic implications of transposed sounds, such as those attributed to Rev. Spooner, could have been usefully added to Learn To Spike Lunars [ XVIII , 4] by Robert Archibald Ford.
Philip Weinberg's EPISTOLA [ XVIII, 2] regarding the Russian word for railroad station in Bryson's English Know-How, No Problem [ XVIII, 4] deserves a comment: While loan words often undergo vast changes in meaning when introduced into a new language, the change from the whole to one of at least two of its parts (assuming there would have been a First Class waiting room for a Volksaal [ sic ] to make sense) in this case seemed too far-fetched.
“Entitling” books and other works is an inferior usage, which I was surprised to find in VERBATIM [XVIII, 2].
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