Shocks and Soes & Liftweighting
My dad has (and does) consider the pinnacle of humour to be switching the beginning sounds of words. My mother, on the other hand (and I give her full credit for having English as her second language - still, it's funny) tends to switch word order in compound words.

This leads to chestnuts like putting on shocks and soes, wearing a she-tirt, doing some liftweighting and putting post in a boxmail.

I've managed to inherit both of these charming speech impediments, resulting in going to the gym to do some wiftleighting.

For bonus points, I've somehow got my girlfriend to do the same.

I'm so ashamed.
(TheManWhoWas SlightlyKnackered, Thu 30 Apr 2009, 21:52, 1 reply)

Not a speech impediment,
it's a literary device that has its own name: malapropism. No longer capitalized, it got its name from a fictional character, Mrs. Malaprop, who humorously switched the sounds of words around.

I suppose that it might be considered an impediment if you do it out of habit and cannot stop.
( tromboner cherophobia is my kind of fun, Sat 2 May 2009, 19:03, closed)