William Spooner: Or Was It Spilliam Wooner?
The Anglican clergyman and Dean of New College Oxford, William Archibald Spooner’s frequent verbal slip-ups gave rise to the term “spoonerism,” in which one switches the parts of two words in a sentence. For example: “The Lord is a shoving leopard” from “The Lord is a loving shepherd.
The Anglican clergyman and Dean of New College Oxford, William Archibald Spooner’s frequent verbal slip-ups gave rise to the term “spoonerism,” in which one switches the parts of two words in a sentence. For example: “The Lord is a shoving leopard” from “The Lord is a loving shepherd.
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