Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Spoonerisms


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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