[Sca-cooks] Old?

[Ted Eisenstein]

>In a message dated 6/13/2001 7:17:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>rygbee at montana.com writes:
>
>> and developed what I called "noun aphasia" when I would talk and the
>>  wrong word came out but it started with the same 1st letter.  It also gets
>>  worse when I haven't had enough sleep.
>
>Is that what they call it? I do that, and what do they call automatic
>transposition of syllables? Sometimes I can't say "Fuddruckers" or "Chicken
>Friccase (sp?)" in polite company...

Oh dear, I've forgotten the word for that: I believe the most famous
exemplar of that was a Victorian-era professor who was well known
for syllabic mayhem - "Here's to our Queer old Dean" rather than "Dear
old Queen"; and "You have hissed all my mystery lectures" rather
than "missed all my history lectures."

(Damn memory of mine.  <sigh> And I don't even have any weird
diseases to blame it on, it's just a bad memory. . . )

Alban