fpoon
English
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fpoon (plural fpoons)
- A spork.
- 1980, Discover[1], Time, page 80:
- What began as a hobby became a serious research project when they realized such errors reveal a lot about the mind. For instance, when Reverend William A. Spooner said "foon and spork" instead of "spoon and fork," he revealed that we speak in units of phonemes. No English speaker would say "fpoon and sork" by accident, since "sp" is an indivisible phoneme.
- 1989, Michigan Quarterly Review[2], volume 28, numbers 2-4, University of Michigan, page 189:
- It is interesting that native speakers of English, when they spoonerize, almost always stay within the bounds of English phonetics. Thus, for instance, "spoon and fork" would never be spoonerized as "fpoon and sork". This indicates that an autonomous process in charge of phonetics alone is at work in the mind during speech production.
- 2013 October 30, Rebecca Drysdale, Colton Dunn, Keegan-Michael Key, Phil Augusta Jackson, Jay Martel, Jordan Peele, Ian Roberts, Alex Rubens, Charlie Sanders, “Sexy Vampires” (14:34 from the start), in Key & Peele[3], season 3, episode 7, Jordan Peele (actor):
- “And who are you, my little friend? Not a spoon... Not a fork... But something in between. A "fpoon".” [chuckles] “What will you think of next, Germany?”