🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi!  Another lurker comes out of the woodwork!  This is my first
posting to this group.  I've enjoyed reading other people's contributions,
but I've been too timid to say anything myself - until now!
I just have to answer Dave Daulton's question...

Yes, Dave!  The word is spoonerism.  Named for one Cardinal Spooner, a dean
at Oxford in the time of Queen Victoria, who was famous for mixing up
initial consonants of adjacent words.  For example:

1. (During a sermon) "What one of us has not harboured in his heart
    a half-warmed fish...?"

2. (When Queen Victoria came to visit) "Let's all stand up and give
    three cheers for the queer old dean!"

3. (Dressing down an un-studious student)  "Sir!  You have tasted two
    entire worms!  You have hissed all my mystery lectures and attempted
    to fight a liar in the quad!  You must leave Oxford by the next
    town drain!"

And those are all the spoonerisms I can think of offhand.  Hope you
like them!

                             -Deirdre (daj8m@Virginia.edu)

P.S.  I know my last example doesn't quite fit the definition I gave, but
      it is my all-time favorite - I just had to put it in!