Spoonerism
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A spoonerism is an occurrence of speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched between two words of a phrase. These are named after the Oxford don and priest William Arch
An example of spoonerism on a protest placard in London: "Buck Frexit" instead of "Fuck Brexit"
Spooner as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1898
Caricature of Charles H. Workman. The accompanying biography reads, "The only part of him which gets tired is his tongue, and occasionally the oft-repeated lines have got muddled. 'Self-constricted ruddles', 'his striggles were terruffic', and 'deloberately rib me' are a few of the spoonerisms he has perpetrated."
William Archibald Spooner
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William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with uninte
Spoonerism
…corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words of a phrase. These are named after the Oxford don and priest William Archibald Spooner, who reportedly commonly spoke in this way. Examples include saying "blushing crow" instead of "crushing blow", or "runny babbit" instead of "bunny…
Spooner in 1924