July 22.
Spoonerism Day. Spoonerisms are
named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, who was dean of New College
in Oxford from 1876-1899. Dr. Spooner
was supposed to be noted for his “ability” to use this form of “word play” –
although I’m not sure it was always intentional! Spoonerisms include “tips of the slongue” –
or reversals of letters in strings of words.
An example of Dr. Spooner’s slips include when
he once referred to a well-oiled
bicycle as "a well-boiled icicle."
Some spoonerisms are quite clever – and
some – not so much. They are DEFINTELY
NOT my forte. The best I can tell you is
that yesterday we saw a “runny babbit” and a “flutter by” in the yard, just
after my human cut my “no tails”. After
that, Frodo would not “bop starking. “ And we were both mad because it was “roaring
pain.”
OK.
That’s it. "Eye ball"!!!
© Linda
Wozniak
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