Friday, January 07, 2011

Spoonerisms

I have a note here from an old journal that I was keeping back when I was in school.  I used this journal to write down short story ideas.  Why I wrote this down, I don't know.  I remember the class I was in when I heard this.  It was a course on linguistics.  One I really liked.  Maybe this was the only notebook I had with me at the time.  Entirely possible.

(Dated 4-17-95, I add for my own amusement's reference...)

A spoonerism is when you mix up the 1st two consonants of 2 words—after a history professor, the Reverend Spooner, who once said, "You hissed my mistory lecture."

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