- William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), an Oxford don who actually claimed to have only made one spoonerism in his life (calling a hymn "The Kinkering Congs...
- A spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched, named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner...
- Jordan made the ultimate spoonerism today when he said, "They were ligging the erections ."
- Spoonerism, reversal of the initial letters or syllables of two or more words, such as “I have a half-warmed fish in my mind” (for “half-formed wish”...
- The name "Spoonerism" comes from a real man named Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930) who was Dean and then later became the President...
- In the first example of a spoonerism, if someone says "we all know what it is to have a half-warmed fish inside us" then they have probably committed a...
- English comedian Ronnie Barker was particularly fond of spoonerisms and could deliver lengthy monologues loaded with deliberate linguistic errors.
- The term spoonerism was used at Oxford as early as 1885, entering into the lexicon of the general English-speaking public around 1900.
- While spoonerisms are usually a mistake, they’re sometimes used to create a fun play on words, like in Shel Silverstein’s Runny Babbit.
- Spoonerisms are words or phrases in which letters or syllables get swapped. This often happens accidentally in slips of the tongue...