[Vocabulary] "The stop of us will be un-twoable".What's the meaning of it?

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This is a line in an episode of a TV series "Miranda".The context is that Miranda and her friend Stevie are mobilizing themselves to beat a girl who mockingly say they are old.I know there isn't such a word as un-twoable,but I'm still very curious to know what Miranda means with this utterance.Your help will be much appreciated.
 

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This is a line in an episode of a TV series "Miranda".The context is that Miranda and her friend Stevie are mobilizing themselves to beat a girl who mockingly say they are old.I know there isn't such a word as un-twoable,but I'm still very curious to know what Miranda means with this utterance.Your help will be much appreciated.


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In my humble opinion, it is a sort of pun. :) Consider this, "two of us will be unstoppable". :idea: I sense I make hope. :mrgreen: I mean, I hope I make sense.;-)
 

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In my humble opinion, it is a sort of pun. :) Consider this, "two of us will be unstoppable". :idea: I sense I make hope. :mrgreen: I mean, I hope I make sense.;-)
Brilliant!Thank you very very much.It makes sense now.
 

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In my humble opinion, it is a sort of pun. :) Consider this, "two of us will be unstoppable". :idea: I sense I make hope. :mrgreen: I mean, I hope I make sense.;-)

Well spotted, Mav. I hadn't noticed that.

(To be picky, it's a spoonerism, not a pun.)

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Well spotted, Mav. I hadn't noticed that.

(To be picky, it's a spoonerism, not a pun.)

Rover:)

:-? I thought Spoonerisms involved the transposition of only the initial phonemes of the words involved. The most popular one I can recall is ascribed to the Reverend Doctor himself: 'You have tasted two worms, and must leave on the next town drain.'

I don't know what whole morpheme transpositions are called. One popular in my family is 'The thick plottens'. ;-)

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

A spoonerism is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched.

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Yes, I worded my objection wrongly :oops:. My restricting it to phonemes was wrong. Such a distinction is worth making though, I think. ;-) The Wikipedia definition doesn't (explicitly) extend to whole words ('two' and 'stop'), although it does by implication as the two words in question are both monophonemic.

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