Spoonerisms

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A spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched, named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency. Many "spoonerisms" attributed to Spooner are believed to have actually been made up by Oxford students.

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  • Names can be spoonerisms also, like Willie Nelson (Nellie Wilson) and Bobby Hall (hobby ball).

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