March 20, 2005

Word of the day: spoonerism

Today's word of the day from dictionary.com was spoonerism (and since this is the chocolatespoon site, afterall, I thought I'd include it):

spoonerism \SPOO-nuh-riz-uhm\, noun: The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.

Some examples:

* We all know what it is to have a half-warmed fish ["half-formed wish"] inside us.
* The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].
* It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.
* Is the bean dizzy ["dean busy"]?
* When the boys come back from France, we'll have the hags flung out ["flags hung out"]!
* Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].

Spoonerism comes from the name of the Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), a kindly but nervous Anglican clergyman and educationalist. All the above examples were committed by (or attributed to) him.

There are some other funny ones here and a good definition here. There are some bad jokes with spoonerism puns here. Apparently July 22 is even Spoonerism Day. The Capitol Steps do some fun things with spoonerisms as well.

Posted by Emily at March 20, 2005 09:58 AM
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