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Spoonerisms- named for the Rev. William Spooner, who actually claimed to have only made one spoonerism in his life (calling a hymn "The Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take"). At it's simplest, it's simply mixing up the first letter or sound of two words, so that Hilarity Ensues. It's generally meant to appear accidental, either as a result of falking too tast, or tea many martoonis.

It can also, as in that last example, involve mixing up sounds from the middles or ends of words. (This is also known as Kniferism and Forkerism.) It can also involve more than two words, tut bat's amfully awbitious true thigh.

Extra points if the spoonerism still makes sense, just not the sense you would want to make. Compare and contrast Malaproper.

Examples:

• In Tom Stoppard's On The Razzle (which is an adaptation of Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen, which was also adapted by Thorton Wilder as The Matchmaker, which was adapted by Michael Stewart And Jerry Herman as Hello Dolly!...where was I? Oh, yes...) Zangler, the shop owner does this regularky, ususally, but not always correcting himself. Par Exemplum...

Do you suppose I'd let my airedale be hounded up hill and-my heiress be mounted up hill and bank by a truffle-hound-be trifled with by a mountebank?

• or, he is helped out by another...

ZANGLER- ...this is the first time Madame Knorr has had the privilige of being swept round the heap of my camp fire.

CHRISTOPHER- That's very well put, chief.

ZANGLER- I don't mean the heap of my camp fire.

CHRISTOPHER- Humped round the scene of your memoirs?

ZANGLER- No.

CHRISTOPHER- Squired round the hub of your empire?

ZANGLER- That's the boy!

• Shel Siverstein wrote a children's book titled Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
• Either Dorothy Parker, Tom Waits, or WC Fields said "I'd rather have a bottle in front or me than a frontal lobotomy."
  • Which Dean Martin developed into "I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy."
• Radio announcer Harry von Zell referred to the president as "Hoobert Heever".

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