spoonerism
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She would sit with me for hours on the couch, pointing to words in books and magazines, and patiently enunciating them, bantering with me in an inexhaustible volley of puns, spoonerisms and goofy double entendres.
From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023
Bush, famously, is a gaffe specialist, the purveyor of scrambled-hash syntax, madcap circumlocutions, spoonerisms and other “Bushisms” that have haunted the internet — or as Bush would have it, internets — for decades.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022
In Week 1463 the Empress asked for Q&A jokes involving spoonerisms — in which the first sounds of two different words are switched.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021
The River of Dreams is the Trent, obviously, which Tom Fort rows slowly down, steering clear of rapids and the involuntary spoonerisms that can be a hazard to any punt captain.
From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2013
Without slips of the tongue, we wouldn’t have spoonerisms, named after the Reverend William A. Spooner, a dean at Oxford.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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