{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Fantastic Flubs (51)","description":"Dave Shepherd and Howard Shepherd play a voicemail response to Howard's recent rap of Beowulf. (2:29)\r\n\r\nHoward and Dave discuss speech flubs: malapropisms, spoonerisms, mondegreens, and shibboleths. (Mondegreens are celebrated by Amanda, the Bean of Me and the Bean.) (3:45)\r\n\r\n\r\nMusic bumper from 'Jona Lee' by Roomful of Blues (17:18)\r\n\r\n\r\nSpoonerisms--funny sound transpositions (17:37)\r\n\r\n\r\nSong: 'Fairest of the Mall' by Griddle (19:27)\r\n\r\n\r\nRude word of the week: 'bass-ackwards' (21:57)\r\n\r\n\r\nMusic bumper from 'Tonight,' by Zach Ashton (24:01)\r\n\r\n\r\nShibboleths--'pronunciation passwords' (24:30)\r\n\r\n\r\nMusic courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network\r\n\r\n\r\nTheme music by Kick the Cat\r\n\r\n\r\ntime: 31:43\r\nsize: 21.8 Mb\r\n\r\n\r\nrating: PG (Nothing much ruder than our Rude Word this week--but you wouldn't want your six-year-old to talk like this, probably.)\r\n\r\n\r\nCategories: language, linguistics\r\n","author_name":"The Word Nerds Archive","author_url":"http:\/\/thewordnerds.org","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/1421855\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/1421855"}