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Article #1310Re: Question - what's the word for ...
From: Francis Muir
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:48
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:48
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Deirdre A. Johnson writes: 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. ... No, Deirdre! You're joshing, right? Dr. Spooner, like many Oxford College Fellows of his day, held a minor appointment in the Church of England. He was also Dean of his College (Christchurch?). What he was not was a Cardinal. In fact, it was not until sometime after Spooner that Catholics could hold Fellowships at Oxford, and no Cardinal has ever held office at Oxford. But you were testing us out. "Ah", you said to yourself, "I'll get that bugger RABworm, just see if I don't." Well, it worked. Congratulations, and welcome to the Net. Now say Three Our fathers and Three Hail Maries, and your sins will be forgiven. RABworm
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!morrow.stanford.edu!oas!francis From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) Newsgroups: misc.writing,misc.kids,rec.arts.books Subject: Re: Question - what's the word for ... Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:48:15 GMT Organization: Stanford Exploration Project Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1jpq2vINNfsc@morrow.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: oas.stanford.edu