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Thomson and Thompson
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Thomson and Thompson are fictional characters in the Adventures of Tintin comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. They are two intelligence service detectives, identical in both appearance and deme
The cover of Le Miroir on 2 March 1919
The cover of Le Miroir on 2 March 1919
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
Thomson and Thompson
…of Tintin in the Congo (1930–1931) gives them a single-panel cameo appearance. Well-meaning but clumsy, thoroughly clueless and afflicted with chronic spoonerisms, they mostly act as comic relief and, originally, as secondary antagonists hindering Tintin's progress by suspecting the wrong people, including him…
An example of spoonerism on a protest placard in London: "Buck Frexit" instead of "Fuck Brexit"
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
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-rep
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."