There was the Reverend William Spooner - "You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain". Followed by a succession of word muddlers, including Officer Crabtree in 'Allo 'Allo recalling a "nit on the bonk of the Thames" (night on the bank of the Thames) with a female "secret urgent" (secret agent).George Bush brings it all up to date with his collection of Bushisms. Some silly, some naive, and some plainly rather deceptive. the BBC has a list of some of the best. The one that gets me is "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." Not a mangled malapropism but smething more sinister. Had he got the trillion dollar deficit in mind?
The list is here.
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