People make all sorts of wacky errors when they’re talking. Sometimes syllables get transposed within a word. Sometimes a phoneme from one syllable is accidentally re-spoken in a later one. Sometimes entirely the wrong word comes out. Occasionally, even, entire words are swapped in a sentence.
People are pretty good at not noticing others’ (or even their own) errors, but if you start paying attention you’ll start catching them really quickly. If you notice any good ones write them down and post them below. I’ll pick out cool-sounding errors and write them here.
Some of my personal favorites: (intended –> actually spoken)
- gays and lesbians –> lays and gesbians
- which red wheelbarrow –> which wed-
- spectacular –> /spεktakliər/
- Two people – two pictures can be of the same size…
- lips numb –> numbs lip
- What class is this book for? –> What book is this class for?
(In this one, the bold words received the stress – the contour of the sentence was so completely un-disrupted that neither of the listeners even noticed that an error had been made. Only after the speaker explicitly backtracked and pointed out exactly what he had said wrong did we realize there was a mistake.)
Storming The Brain 
My mother regularly says “Soduko” rather than “Sudoku.”
My mom does this all the time. I’ll try and pay closer attention so I can document them for you. Off the top of my head though:
Bath and Body Works => Both and Bady Works. I thought it was interesting that she transposed the vowels instead of the consonants.
does it count if you do it on purpose? I regularly do it for names of couples e.g., Losh and Jauren.