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PWB Peeps: Spoonerisms [1]
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Date: 2025-06-06
I’m sure these events are older than the Rev. Spooner, but he managed to “name” the problem.
Pello, Meeps! Oh, I mean hello, Peeps — today we are studying Spoonerisms, those wonderfully weird mistakes that crop up in com sommunications… oh…
(Note: This week I had a rare visit from my sister from the other coast, so I’m reprising one of my old diaries. And I have a 10:30am lab appt. to get my COVID booster, so I might be a bit late to comments — but I’ll be here! Thanks for understanding.)
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According to Wikipedia: “A spoonerism is an occurrence in speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words in a phrase.[1][a] These are named after the Oxford don and ordained minister William Archibald Spooner, who reputedly did this.” Agreed that Spoonerism is MUCH easier to remember than metathesis.
One of my favorite of his was when he scolded a woman for sitting in the wrong row: “Mardon me padam, this pie is occupewed.”
“I’ll occupew any pie I want!”
“DID SOMEONE SAY PIE??”
“Pie iz gud… for sum’in...”
Basically, it’s when your tang gets all tungled and your merds are wixed up. I didn’t know that, according to Wikipedia, “A spoonerism is also known as a marrowsky or morowski, purportedly after an 18th-century Polish count who suffered from the same impediment.”
“Not ME… I’d mever nake that tismake… oh, whatever...”
Possibly one reason for my longterm interest is that I did this when I was a schoolgirl, probably from anxiety. Aside from the quick misses, like flutterby for butterfly and walkside for sidewalk,
“It’s a Flutterby!”
I once memorized a whole poem that came out “whackbirds” when I recited it in 4th grade (major shame, of course!) Walt Whitman will never forgive me: “Oh Captain, My Captain, our fearful trip is done; our ship has rethered every whack, the wise we sought is pun...”
h/t audizine
I still do it when I’m trying to talk too fast, or sometimes for fun. It’s also a good test of whether people are actually listening. 😉
I’m gonna end with this video:
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Have a dunderful way, Peeps!
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