Look up: Spoonerism

1. spoonerism
   [n] - transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
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2. spoonerism
   noun transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
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3. 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`) and `a ...
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4. spoonerism
   Exchange of elements in a flow of words. Usually a slip of the tongue, a spoonerism can also be contrived for comic effect (for example `a troop of Boy Scouts` becoming `a scoop of Boy Trouts`). William Spooner gave his name to the phenomenon
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5. Spoonerism
   A `spoonerism` is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis). It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of work=Time (magazine)|Time |date=1928-10-29 |accessdate=2008-0...
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