Remember all those times Barney Fife said one thing, yet meant another?
Barney's Blunders[]
- mulage for a moulage kit
- compelsions for compulsions
- inovert for introvert
- Smith Brothers Institution for the Smithsonian
- heeliocopter for helicopter
- klepotmenerac for kleptomaniac
- Einsteen for Einstein
- inarculated for inoculated (he really meant incarcerated)
- extra-sensitive perception for ESP
- schizofreeniac for schizophrenic
- nave for naive
- larnyx for larynx
- fire by constriction for fire by combustion
- viz-a-viz for vis-a-vis ("you know- hand-to-hand")
- boodoor for boudoir
- Sigmund Frude for Freud
- demore for demure
- noblesse oblage for noblesse oblige
- therapetic for therapeutic
- petulla obondalla for medulla oblongata
- safary for safari
- constriction for friction
- fuh-sish-us for facetious
- Pronounced Herb as "Herb" instead of the correct pronunciation of "Erb"
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