Local syntactic ambiguity. Mis-parsed “firms” as a verb, took “fight” as direct object. Realized error when reached “ban”. Correct parsing has “Chinese liquor” modifying the subject noun, “firms”.
Source: Reuters.com
Intended: Jack Frost nipping at your nose.
Other “misheard lyrics” from this song:
Chipmunks roasting on an open fire,
(or) Jeff’s nuts roasting on an open fire,
Check for snipping at your nose;
You’ll tide carols being sung by the fire,
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.
Everybody knows a turkey, handsome Mr. Soul
Help to make the season bright;
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.
From The Christmas Song, by Mel Torme and Bob Wells
Intended: Do we have any bay leaves?
Speech perception error, mis-parsing of speech stream. Creates real words. Both of same semantic category. Plausible within similar contexts.
From Google: “There’s snow on the ground, but we hope there snow spam in your inbox.”
Reparsing, from “there’s no spam”. Possible because of the continuous speech signal.
Instead of “The Lord is a Loving Shepard.” Classic Spoonerism. Onset exchange error. On adjacent words.
Instead of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” - Guns n’ Roses. Found online
Phoneme-exchange error, between two vowels, following alveolar consonants. Real words created, “a sheep”. - AR
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