While there is no doubt that Spooner was prone to these mistakes, it is also clear that many of them, which are attributed to him, are apocryphal. What causes spoonerisms? Speech is a psychological and physiological miracle, and it is no surprise that occasionally the “wires get crossed”...
Golfito extends for ages without any clear centre, through stretches where the main road is hemmed in by hills on one side and the lapping waters of the golfito on the other. The town is effectively split in two – by a division in wealth as well as architecture. In the north is the...
This echoes Henry Ford's famous, though perhaps apocryphal, claim that: "If I had asked [consumers] what they wanted, they would have said, 'Faster horses!'" (Vlaskovits and Ford 2011). For our purposes, this notion of entrepreneurship is crucially linked to the changes in the forms and...
Since the journalists have been unable to find the Fidelity study, and apparently so has Fidelity, the story is probably apocryphal. But I still like the idea, since the conclusion is so much in line with my thinking.I’m not saying it’s worth dying to improve investment performance, but...
Don’t know about spoonerisms? Pobody’s nerfect. This wordplay technique is a form of linguistic error that can occur when someone is speaking too quickly or not paying attention. However, they can also be used deliberately as a form of wordplay. See how you can inject some levity in you...
There is hardly one that is not largely and obviously interpolated. No one can deny that this has taken place with. Daniel. The apocryphal additions are too well known for any one to maintain the opposite opinion. When, moreover, one begins to compare the Massoretic text with the more ...
You need not worry about the apocryphal stories that your people told about our first Imperial Age. That Skywalker kid was a terrorist, pure and simple. However, our inside sources reveal that the “documentary” in progress by the Terran named Jjabrams includes a rather accurate portrayal of...
He is the Son of God and the Servant of the Lord; but in that highest and only true sense, which had given its meaning to all the preparatory development. As He was anointed' to be the Servant of the Lord,' not with the typical oil, but by the Spirit of Jehovah' upon' Him, so...
Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register. To be avengedOn him who had stole Jove's authentic fire. Real Be...
being genuine or true to one's own personality, spirit, or character, often emphasizing originality and sincerity in intentions and actions. It is about being real and not imitating or copying others, thus ensuring that one's actions and expressions are aligned with their true self or origins....