 Quote by phinds
I just remembered an example of my dyslexia (and THIS one I think IS dyslexia) that was hilarious at the time.
I saw an on-line ad for a snow shovel that had a handle that came apart in sections and I decided I just had to have one for the trunk of my car, so I called the # and told they lady that I wanted to buy one of their show snovels.
There was a bit of a silence and then she said, very uncertainly, "uh ... what ?"
And I, not being the most patient person in the world, say. YOUR SHOW SNOVEL ... I want to order one of your show snovels !!!
There was another silence and then miraculously, she and I both realized at the same time what I had said and we both broke out laughing and had a very nice chat after we caught our breath.
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This particular error in speech is called a "Spoonerism":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism
Dyslexia is:
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...a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read,[1] and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming.
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In other words, it's generally a problem with reading and writing, and not with speech.
I think Spoonerisms have gotten associated in people's minds with dyslexia because dyslexia is often described as the visual swapping of letters while reading. And, screening people for dyslexia often involves a test asking them to deliberately create spoonerisms:
http://www.york.ac.uk/media/psycholo...uments/YAA.pdf
Dyslexia wouldn't be suggested from someone demonstrating spoonerisms in speech, rather it would be suggested if a person were poor at creating them when required to.
Spoonerisms don't seem to be regarded as indicative of any pathology, that I can find:
http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/5/1173.full
http://mackay.bol.ucla.edu/1970%20Sp...sms%201970.pdf