For the record: A. W. Spooner of Oxford University, renowned amongst his students for his verbal mistakes through nervousness when lecturing. Died about 1930 but his memory lingers on......
Regards Terry "Sharon L. House" wrote: > > 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]>
