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Spoonerisms
« on: July 23, 2013, 12:01:12 AM »
Spoonerisms: remembering William Spooner

On the anniversary of the birth of the Rev William Spooner, we honour his unintentional comic interchange of sounds, known as spoonerisms.


Queen Victoria in 1897. She was supposedly the subject of a famous spoonerism, when William Spooner raised a toast to "our queer old dean" instead of to "our dear old Queen." Photo: PA

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Re: Spoonerisms
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2013, 12:02:55 AM »
By Telegraph Reporters
22 Jul 2013

The Reverend William Archibald Spooner was born in London on July 22, 1844. He was an albino and suffered defective eyesight and it is thought that this caused some of his verbal confusions which were later dubbed "spoonerisms". These included "it is kisstomary to cuss the bride". Spooner, who died in 1930, was an Anglican priest and scholar, he studied at New College, Oxford, before lecturing there for 60 years in history, philosophy and divinity.

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Re: Spoonerisms
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2013, 12:05:02 AM »
He was apparently an amiable, kind and hospitable man though absent-minded. He also had a keen intellect, which is where his problems began. His tongue barely kept up with his thought processes resulting in an unintentional interchange of sounds, producing a phrase with a meaning entirely different from the one intended. That is what is now called a spoonerism. The more agitated the good Reverend became, the more acute the manifestation of sound switching.

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Re: Spoonerisms
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2013, 12:11:15 AM »
Witnesses claimed to have heard Spooner say:

On meeting a widow, he remarked that it was very sad, "her late husband was eaten by missionaries."

Calling a famous Irish play "The Ploughboy of the Western World".

"Blushing crow" for "crushing blow."

"The Lord is a shoving leopard" (Loving shepherd).

" A well-boiled icicle" for "well-oiled bicycle."

"I have in my bosom a half-warmed fish" (for half-formed wish), supposedly said in a speech to Queen Victoria.

A toast to "our queer old dean" instead of to "our dear old Queen."

Upon dropping his hat: "Will nobody pat my hiccup?"

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Re: Spoonerisms
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2013, 12:16:40 AM »
"Go and shake a tower" (Go and take a shower).

At a wedding: "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride."

Paying a visit to a college official: "Is the bean dizzy?"

"Such Bulgarians should be vanished..." (Such vulgarians should be banished).

Addressing farmers as "ye noble tons of soil".

And, the classic: "Mardon me padom, you are occupewing my pie. May I sew you to another sheet?"

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