Anybody heard of Verbal Dyslexia?

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"I put my lapkin on my nap."..."I would cry joys of tear."..."My church got stolen at a phone event."..."Do they celebrate Australia in Christmas?"

I've said all those things. I do it while talking, typing, and stuff like that. I mix up two words, or the first letter in each word. Is that verbal dyslexia?

I do this at times, not frequently but often enough that I have developed a sort of habit of doing it deliberately as a form of joke so that when it is unintentional, no one else but I knows for sure it wasn't meant. Plus I have always had a sort of warped sense of humor, word puns and soonerisms and the like appeal to me big time.

For example if someone asks "How are you?" I like to say, "Well, not as bad as I could be and not as good as I ought to be, so about like normal, I guess." Or I will say, "Well, just finer than frog's fur." Or "Sorta like a feline lying in a fresh batch of catnip." I often enjoy the looks on other peoples' faces who were expecting "Okay" or "Good" or whatever. Or when it is really cold outside I may say, "Brrr, Brrr ... and I am not talking about the carpet." Or if a co-worker says something about like, "Is it time to go home yet?" I'll answer, "Well, you haven't heard the fat lady sing yet, have you?"

But on switching words, I'll deliberately say something like "Brr, it is crigging fold out there!" Or "It is egg enough out there to fry the hot with." Like I say, I work on this at times so that the times it just happens is expected and not unusual. It is my defense mechanism against being thought as "different". Flaunt the oddities enough and people just figure you are eccentric. And that works for me. Plus it seems to give me a little control over the other stuff because I am not stressing out at the fear of doing it when I am a little out of control.