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Spoonerism

A spoonerism is an occurrence of speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words of a phrase. These are named after the Oxford don and priest William Archibald Spooner, who reportedly commonly spoke in this way.

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Spoonerism

Nodes85
Edges84
Triples154
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023529
Components1

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Spoonerism

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related to Music · 38
Spoonerism → ADHD, American, Com Truise's, Coyle-Larner, Creator's, Cunning Stunts, Dallas Cowboys, David Jackson, Drublic, Dutch, DVD, English, Estonian, Ford Mustang, Golf Wang, Graaf Generator's, Han Solo, I'll, Kill Them All, LA
related to Literature · 37
Spoonerism → Alex, Aysop's Feebles, Beeping Sleauty, Billy Sook, Brian, Budd, Chase Taylor, Cleary, Colonel Stoopnagle, Comedian, Cow, Dash, Douglas Bush, Dummy, HarperCollins, Humorously, In, Lawrence, Mad, My Tale Is Twisted
related to Examples · 20
Spoonerism → Dean, Is, Kinkering Kongs, Most, Oxford, Please, Queen Victoria, Quotations, Richard Lederer, Someone, Spooner, The, The Kinquering Congs Their, The Lord, The Oxford Dictionary, They, Three, Titles Take, William Spooner, You
related to Etymology · 14
Spoonerism → An, Daily Herald, In, New College, Oxford, Reverend William Archibald Spooner, Robert Seton, Spooner, Spooner's, Spoonerisms, The, The Oxford English Dictionary, The Times, Warden
related to Kniferisms and forkerisms · 12
Spoonerism → All, As, British, Doochess, Douglas Hofstadter, Duck, Examples, Harry, Hoobert Heever, President Herbert Hoover's, Windsor, Zell
related to Comedy · 8
Spoonerism → Barker, Ben Elton, British, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Barker Talk, The, The Two Ronnies, Writing
related to Crosswords · 7
Spoonerism → Example, Rev, Spooner, Spooner's, Spoonerisms, The, Uniquely
related to Scientific research · 7
Spoonerism → EEG, In, Laboratory-Induced Predisposition, One, Researchers, SLIP, Spoonerisms
see also · 5
Spoonerism → And Other Spoonerisms, Blend, Finnish, ParodyPhonemic, Smart Feller Fart Smeller
related to False etymology · 4
Spoonerism → English, For, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Spoonerisms

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spoonerisms used also spooner examples name oxford american speech words word comedy one book slip two named william instead commonly

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Spoonerismis aoccurrence of speech in which corresponding consonants0.90text
Spoonerismrelated to ComedyThe0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to ComedyBritish0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to ComedyThe Two Ronnies0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to ComedyRonnie Barker0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to ComedyBarker0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to ComedyWriting0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to ComedyRonnie Barker Talk0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to ComedyBen Elton0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to CrosswordsSpoonerisms0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to CrosswordsThe0.60section
Spoonerismrelated to CrosswordsSpooner0.60section

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