It took me a few seconds to remember “boomerang”. When a Dad-joke form of a word is really good, it drives out the correct for a while. My sister and I cracked each other up for a couple of minutes when we were kids by abusing the word “potato”. By the time we were done, neither of us was sure how to pronounce it, which cracked us up more.
I first read that joke — You don’t buy beer, you rent it — on the outside of a Port-a-Potty at the Renaissance Faire in Black Oak Forest decades ago. I imagine Chaucer was familiar with it. It doesn’t get olde.
British Army colonel: “Right! Stop all this right now! This nonsense is out of order! Inexplicable dismembering is completely against standing orders. Stop!”
Took me a loong time to get those, particularly Tan Gogh. Sometime in the aughts, I started pronouncing Gogh as Gawk because I had learned that was close to the Dutch pronunciation. Oh my!
That desk is way too clean, Aunty!