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William Archibald Spooner (1844 – 1930) is forever locked into history because the linguistic phenomenon known as a “spoonerism” is named after him. A spoonerism involves the accidental (or sometimes intentional) swapping of letters, words, or vowels in a sentence – for example: “Go and shake a tower” (meaning “go and take a shower”). Spooner was a professor at Oxford and he became so famous for his spoonerisms that people would attend his lectures just to hear him make a mistake.

Some spoonerisms attributed to Spooner are:

“Mardon me padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet?” (Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat?)
“Let us glaze our asses to the queer old Dean” (…raise our glasses to the dear old Queen)
“We’ll have the hags flung out” (…flags hung out)  --from http://listverse.com/


 




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fighting a liar                                                lighting a fire
you hissed my mystery lecture                       you missed my history lecture
cattle ships and bruisers                                battle ships and cruisers
nosey little cook                                           cosy little nook
a blushing crow                                            a crushing blow
tons of soil                                                  sons of toil
you've tasted two worms                              you've wasted two terms
our shoving leopard                                      our loving shepherd
a half-warmed fish                                        a half-formed wish
is the bean dizzy?                                         is the Dean busy?


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