Thursday, May 28, 2015

Summer-saults

Context: Alice had just figured out how to do a somersault off of the couch on a cushion.

Sera: "What a great somersault!"

Alice: "I can even do a July-sault!"

I recently learned from NPR that Alice's thinking I said "Summer-sault" is an example of an eggcorn. Although, Grandpa Arcaro, who recently visited, is fond of making jokes like this, so it's possible she got the phrase from him and didn't come up with the idea herself.