Paragram
A paragram ( Greek parágramma, written addition ) is a jokingly comical, ironic or aesthetic-poetic change in a name or word by exchanging one or more letters .
Examples
- Biberius (Latin: drunkard; Tiberius)
- God shave the Queen (save)
- Laughing and shooting company (guard and lock company)
- Land of judges and executioners (poets and thinkers)
- Fairy tale tax (VAT)
- Shuffle Impossible (cartoon about three one-armed skat players)
- Rest in pieces ("rest in individual parts" instead of "rest in peace")
- All-round sleep (all-round blow)
- Paramedic
- Funkasse (Sparkasse)
- The Beatles (The Beetles = The Beetles)
- Killer (perpetrator)
- Learning from the Soviet Union means learning to die (to win)
- Raccoon stomach (instead of "washboard stomach")
- We were in the sweat (Switzerland)
- Wipe Impossible (combination of the film Mission Impossible with the missing finger gestures of a dumbphone )
literature
- Günter Vallaster (ed.), Paragrams. An anthology with contributions by Theo Breuer , Ilse Kilic , Axel Kutsch , Gerhard Rühm , Fritz Widhalm and others. v. a., 155 pages, edition ch , Vienna 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paragraph . In: Meyers. 4th edition. Volume 12, p. 700.
- ↑ Theo Breuer, slayer , in: Günter Vallaster, Para frames , S. 35
- ↑ Presumably mentioned for the first time by Jochen Dreier in his blog ( memento of the original from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
