MALAPROPISMS
Hairy Potter,
Harry Potter.
Hamnesia,
correct usage would be suffering from amnesia.
Suffering from Hamnesia, forgetting to kill the pig!
He didn’t like women because he was a Homo Secretary.
Husky and Starch,
Defective double act.
I dreamed I lived in Marbled pillared halls but spent my youth in Billiard Halls.
NAMES
Harris Tweed,
a weaver.
Harry Stockracy,
Aristocracy: upper class.
ODDS
The Post Office are reputed to have received a letter addressed thus:
HILL
JOHN
10 HIGH St
AND
OVER
HANTS
and, after discussion and decipherment, correctly delivered it to;
John Underhill, 10 High St, Andover, Hants.
this was, of course, before post codes.
If something is described as being "not so hot", it is very different
from the appellation "cool". ??? One being not very good, and the
second, very stylish.
If one "had some friends for dinner". It doesn't, usually, mean that
one ate them. (Unless your name is Hannibal Lector)
Handfuls,
handsfull.
Hang on - Hold on - telephone or in person - to what??
Hangnail,
a coathook.
Honey, Funney, Money, Sunni and Sunny all share the same sounds for their endings.
Knowing or learning something "by heart" not "off hand".
SPOONERISMS
You have hissed my mystery lessons.
You must at some time in your breast have felt a half-warmed fish.
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