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spoonerism
- accidental verbal error: an accidental transposition of initial consonant sounds or parts of words, especially in an amusing way, e.g. "half-warmed fish" for "half-formed wish"
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  • Spoonerism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    edit] Examples. Most of the quotations attributed to Spooner are apocryphal; The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd edition, 1979) lists only one substantiated spoonerism: "The ...

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    The word spoonerism comes from William Archibald Spooner who was famous for making these verbal slips. Find out more about Spooner. Why not visit our bookstore pages to find all the ...

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