James wrote, in part: >It is called a "Spoonerism", from a character in an English novel, can't >remember the writer, maybe Dickens. Or something like that. A play on >words, specific to this language.
Oh, I am so far behind with my e-mail. But just have to reply to this. Spoonerisms are one of my favorite things in life. Probably the best I've heard is: A well-oiled bicycle becomes a well-boiled icicle. Here's another good one only this time it's not technically a spoonerism, I guess. Instead of switching the first letters of the words, the words themselves are switched, in this case, inadvertently. One of the best bloopers of old-time radio involved a crime story where two inmates in adjoining cells were sharing their stories. One asked the other how he came to be there and the other replied, "some dirty squeal pigeon stooled on me." Sharon -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
