SPOONERISM
Have you ever tried to say something but then it happened that the speaking ‘got accident’ ? It doesn’t come out as you expected.
It is called Spoonerism.
Well, still don’t get it?
Okay, here is an example :
“Mam., last night, I had a dad brim!” Do you know what the meaning is? I don’t! unless I had to think hardly that he got an ‘accident’.
Then I realized that he was trying to say,” Mam, I had a bad dream”!
Where is the term “Spoonerism” after?
The Reverend Dr W A Spooner was a very important man in Oxford University but he used to have accidents in speaking. He often changed the beginning of two words like this :
# We all know the feeling when we have a half-warmed fish in our hearts.
( He meant to say a half-formed wish)
# Kinkering Kongs their titles take.
(the first line of a religious song, or hymn, is really Conquering kings their titles take.)
So Dr Spooner’s name forms part of the name we give to accidents of that kind: spoonerism.
Here are examples that the dictionaries give when they explain the word spoonerism.
· Let me sew you to a sheet (for: show you to a seat)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)
· You have hissed the mystery of lectures. (for : missed the history)
Concise Oxford Dictionary
· Start your journey with a well-boiled icicle. (for a well-oiled bicycle)
Oxford Advanced Learner’sDictionary
(Icicle : dripping water that has frozen to form a point of ice)
· This country owes much to its horny-handed tons of soil.
(for sons of toil)
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary
Toil : hard work
· Our queer dean! (for dear Queen)
Encyclopedic World Dictionary
Queer : very unusual
Dean : important man in the church or a university.
Here are some spoonerisms for you to work out:
· He stopped at the gate, “High mause!” he said proudly.
· “ I’m sad to glee you”
· The trast lane goes at nidmight.”
· I’m going to fight the liar because it’s crowing gold.”
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