spoonerisms de la façon française (sp?)

[trochee]

contrèpetrie (also possibly: contrèpeterie, since google has many more hits for "contrepeterie", also possibly without accent grave): "spoonerism", at least according to my recent dictionary purchase.

This word is thanks to imtboo, who explained that the pair toutes mes felicitations and toutes mes ficelles de caleçon are a contrèpetrie.

Interestingly, Babelfish attempts to translate contrèpeterie as contrepetery (but not contrèpetrie, which it leaves as is), but Google doesn't think "contrepetery" exists, and I am inclined to agree. This suggests that there is some hand-coded morphology rule in the Fr->En SYSTRAN engine that maps -erie to -ery regardless of whether the word is lexically available.

In other (related) news, I have worked out how to use the "Compose" key under SCIM and KDE to get accented characters.

Comments

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Contrepétrie .
That is the right accentuation. I am positive.
It's when you switch sounds around in a sentence and it means something else.
Like :
Glisser dans la Piscine.
The contrepétrie in this case is :
Pisser dans la gliscine.

So ficelles de caleçon is indeed a pun and not a contrepétrie. But still we all learned something so hey.