#ringoism

[beatlequotes]

I was going home in the car and Dick Lester suggested the title, 'Hard Day's Night' from something Ringo had said. I had used it in 'In His Own Write', but it was an off-the-cuff remark by Ringo. You know, one of those malapropisms. A Ringo-ism, where he said it not to be funny... just said it. So Dick Lester said, 'We are going to use that title.'

John Lennon, Playboy Interviews, 1980

[moonywalker]

• R I N G O I S M • • • • • • • • • • •

“ The word ringoism is a word the Beatles purely made up themselves. Ringo would make slight malapropisms, though according to McCartney, his were different, very wonderful and lyrical.”

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Ringo: “We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, ‘It’s been a hard day… and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, ‘…night!’ So we came to ‘ a hard day’s night.’”

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

Ringo: “I don’t know. I was just talking, having an interview. Just like I am now!”

(John and Paul begin lifting rocks of his hair, pretending to cut it)

Ringo: “I was talking away and I looked ‘round, and there was about 400 people just smiling. So, you know - what can you say?”

John: “What can you say?”

Ringo: “Tomorrow never knows.”

[lennonsstarr]

"Ringo would do these little malapropisms, he would say things slightly wrong, like people do, but his were always wonderful, very lyrical.."