spoonerism
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Still running — deadline Monday night, Nov. 29: Our contest for spoonerism jokes.
From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021
This week: Write an original Q-A joke featuring a spoonerism, the transposition of the beginnings of different words, as in the entries above from our 1995 contest.
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021
In a spoonerism you're transposing two sounds from two different words.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2012
A spoonerism is the transposition of two sounds, or of the first letters of two words, in a simple sentence.
From Time Magazine Archive
A deliberate spoonerism for creeping featurism, meant to imply that the system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of hacks.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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