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Re: Question - what's the word for ...

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From: Nigel Ling
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:21
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In article <1993Jan22.193800.2944@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> daj8m@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Deirdre A. Johnson) writes:
>
>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!

Thanks for those Deirdre

Here's a matrimonial one I quite like

   Those whom God hath joyfully loined together

Nigel
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From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
Subject: Re: Question - what's the word for ...
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