tangletalk

Questions

What does tangletalk mean?

A playful style of language with deliberate incongruities, as in: "A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in the grass".

Where does tangletalk come from?

From tangle + talk; coined by Iona and Peter Opie.

How to pronounce tangletalk

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