Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Spoonerism

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What is spoonerism - Well, check these out.

tease my ears - ease my tears
our shoving leopard - our loving shepherd
bowel feast - foul beast
this is the pun fart - this is the fun part
copporn - popcorn
it crawls through the fax - it falls through the cracks
my zips are lipped - my lips are zipped

Sometimes a slip of the tongue may land you into an embarrassing situation. This is how different, words can get with Spoonerism.
According to Wikipedia 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.
Do let know few more spoonerisms you've come across.

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