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

Rev. Dr. William Archibald Spooner, 84, insists that the last quoted spoonerism is the only one he ever invented or used.

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.