From Spooner + -ism, named after Oxford don Reverend W. A. Spooner (1844–1930), who is supposed to have habitually made such slip-ups.
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- “The queer old dean” (for “the dear old Queen”)
- Reports of a shortage of snacks at the spoonerism conference turned out to be a complete lack of pies.
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spoonerism (plural spoonerisms)
- A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.
- Synonym: marrowsky
phrase where sounds are transposed
- Breton: treuzviezadenn (br) f
- Catalan: contrapet (ca) m, antístrofa
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 首音互换 (shǒuyīn hùhuàn)
- Danish: bakke snagvendt c
- Dutch: spoonerisme (nl) n
- Esperanto: kontraŭknalo
- Finnish: sananmuunnos (fi)
- French: contrepèterie (fr) f, contrepet (fr) m
- Greek: παραδρομή γλώσσας f (paradromí glóssas)
- Hungarian: szpúnerizmus, szavakon átívelő metatézis
- Italian: spoonerismo m
- Japanese: 語音転換 (goon tenkan)
- Manx: Spooneraght f
- Polish: gra półsłówek f, spuneryzm m
- Portuguese: trocadilho (pt) m, spoonerismo m, antístrofe f
- Russian: спунери́зм (ru) m (spunerízm), спунери́зм (ru) m (spunɛrízm), каламбу́р (ru) m (kalambúr)
- Spanish: espunerismo m, espunerismos m pl, retruécano (es)
- Thai: คำผวน (th) n
- Vietnamese: (phép) nói lái (vi), (phép) nói trại (vi)
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