Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yew Nork

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The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 17:20, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Yew Nork

We read that it's a meme, the name of New York City with the first letter of each word switched. (Wait, shouldn't that be "Coo, Nork Yitty!" or similar? Oh, never mind.) The origin's said to be obscure, but my friend Mr Google took me straight here. Now, if even Disney classes this Disneydatum as trivial, I think we can agree that it's trivial. Meanwhile, I submit that "meme" here is a fancy word for "neologism" or "term". Trivia, whimsy, neologism: take ya choice, but anyway delete. -- Hoary 09:15, 2005 May 23 (UTC)

• Redirect to Spoonerism, maybe add a line to that article (or maybe not). Grutness...wha? 11:55, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: For my part, I don't think this is a particularly famous or notable Spoonerism. After all, it's just a kid's game switch, and not a real Spoonerism at all (where the resulting pun is a joke or betrays secret feelings or information). Geogre 15:46, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable, not common as a misspelling, and besides, it's usually "New Nork". --Carnildo 21:57, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable spoonerism. Megan1967 05:24, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nonnotable spoonerism and unverifiable meme. --Angr/_comhrá 05:52, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

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