… do they have a name? By phonetic anagrams I mean phrases with identical sounds except for a phoneme displacement rather than a letter displacement. I just stumbled on one I rather like—
dinasaur shoes
Dinah Shore sues
No, you get from one of my phrases to the other by swapping ‘s’ and ‘sh’ phonemes. In an ordinary anagram you get from one phrase or word to the other by a letter displacement as in ‘rattles’ and ‘startle.’
Hey, wait a minute. You’re at the very least close; in fact I think you have one.
Hmmm…I’m going to have to think about that phoneme displacement requirement. So far the only thing coming to mind is the old church hymn about Gladly the Cross-eyed bear.
Like Rudy the Bolshevik whose wife skeptically questions his weather-predicting ability, to which he replies “Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear.”
Or the bartender who has to confess (to the doctor who always comes in after a hard day to unwind with an acorn daquiri,) that he’d run out of acorns and had to substitute hickory nuts. “You’re right…it’s a hickory daquiri Doc.”
Oh, jeez. How about that one where a fellow suffering from irregularity consults a Chinese herbalist, and the punchline is, “With fronds like these, who needs enemas?”
Better a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy.
I used to know a bloke that thought it was enormously funny, but he could never say it. In fact he never managed to say it properly in all the time I knew him. That was funny.
Here’s one I wowed them with a week or two back:
Fashionable River-craft
Mrs Puggy-Wuggy has a square-cut punt
Not a punt cut-square
but a square-cut punt
It’s round at the end and blunt in the front
Mrs Puggy-Wuggy has a square-cut punt.