Spoonerism

spoonerism English Noun en spoonerism. en w:Jessie Pope Spoonerisms Pearson’s Magazine XLVIII 1919 535 https://books.google.com/books?id=gnU-AQAAMAAJ&q=Spoonerism 1 A Spoonerism may sometimes alter the whole tenor of a person’s career. An extremely bashful man was asked to find the elderly daughter of the house, who was in the garden, and ask her to make tea. “Miss Florence,” he said, when he discovered her in the rosery, “I have come to ask if you will take me?” And she did! en Oxford Diocesan Magazine July 1976 15 1 quoted in spoonerism w:R[obert] W[illiam] Burchfield A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary IV (Se–Z) Oxford, Oxon At the Clarendon Press 1986 434 https://archive.org/details/supplementtooxfo04burc/page/n461/mode/1up 3 I am not going to put on any weight until I’m fifty, when I shall allow myself to become matronly, ready to be a follower of ‘soda and gobbly matrons’, as enjoined by the marriage service. (A good Spoonerism that, created quite involuntarily by my mother some years ago.) en w:Gore Vidal w:Kalki New York, N.Y. w:Random House 1978 30 https://archive.org/details/kalkinovel00vida/page/30/mode/1up 0-394-42053-5 Dr. Ashok suffered from a mild form of metaphasis. He made Spoonerisms. en w:Ann Treneman MI5 was watching Katia? So were many male MPs https://books.google.com/books?id=6li1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT96 Dave and Nick: The Year of the Honeymoon…and Beyond London The Robson Press, Biteback Publishing Ltd 2011 978-1-84954-281-4 I tried to concentrate on this very tiny but very fascinating scandal-ette involving a leggy blonde Russian researcher, but Jude Law – and Spoonerisms – kept distracting me Now Nick Herbert had just been asked about cuts to front line policing. ‘I don’t accept that those are c****,’ he said, immediately correcting himself. en Chip Chapman Nicknames Notes from a Small Military London John Blake 2013 119 https://archive.org/details/notesfromsmallmi0000chap/page/119/mode/1up 9781782194668 An attached cavalry officer was called Captain Lunt. McCord employed his best Spoonerism to rename him ‘Laptain’.