Re: [Finale] OT Spoonerisms [was: Finale eggcorns]

2006-11-02 Thread Giz Bowe
At 04:21 PM 10/17/2006 +0100, you wrote: A Spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants or vowels are switched (see metathesis), named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844­1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency.

[Finale] OT Spoonerisms [was: Finale eggcorns]

2006-10-17 Thread Ken Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants or vowels are switched (see metathesis), named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency. Here is a limerick