thanking my broccoli for its service

in Britain, they call it Leftenant Broccoli. this is to honor the great military hero Leftenant Tubely Codswallow for riding gallantly into a crowd of women and children and valiantly hacking at them with his saber during the Glorious Battle of Peterloo (1819). Codswallow was famous for his “broccolical” hairstyle.

Metathesis is one of the most common of pronunciation errors, a reversal of vowel and consonant, “bark” to “broc”…