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Snopestionary: What is a Spoonerism?

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The term spoonerism refers to the transposition of the initial sound of two or more words. It was named after William Archibald Spooner, a priest and long-serving don at Oxford University. Not all of the phrases attributed to him have been verified. Some of the professor's famous phrases may have been invented by his students.

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Snopestionary: What is a Spoonerism?

This merbal vistake gets its name from a long-serving don at Oxford University.

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