Posted on 06/21/2007 4:32:56 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
spoonerism \SPOO-nuh-riz-uhm\, noun
The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.
Examples:
We all know what it is to have a half-warmed fish ["half-formed wish"] inside us.
The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].
It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.
When the boys come back from France, we'll have the hags flung out ["flags hung out"]!
Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].
Etymology:
Spoonerism comes from the name of the Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), a kindly but nervous Anglican clergyman and educationalist. All the above examples were committed by (or attributed to) him.But there is evidence to suggest that the Reverend William Archibald Spooner rarely if ever uttered a Spoonerism.
Spooner spent all his adult life at New College, Oxford, joining it as a scholar in 1862 and retiring as Warden (head of college) in 1924. The term "Spoonerism" began to appear in print around 1900, though the Oxford English Dictionary records that it had been known in Oxford colloquially since about 1885.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
thank you. we’re taking a delayed honeymoon after summer session ends, but we ARE going to Niagaraa falls (slowly we toin...)
I RESEMBLE THAT (thanx, friend)
you are such a stooge....
thanx. she’s really quite a gal...
she has severe pain in her hip, yet walks about a half mile every day to catch the bus just so we can lunch together...
i know xshub’s head will explode, but he can raise this in the next fundraising call he gets from them....
HNNNNNNNNN! I’m a victim of coicumstances!
How nice of him to give us permission to get angry! What kind of idiots scratch a check to that guy? A+ for you.
Truform - Official Hernia truss of Nascar.
OMG. ROTFLMAO!
that was pretty dang hilarious.
And Alpha Queda would be a spoonerism.
Teach, I’ll take my plus now.
you were one of the only rational ones!
Sort of, but it was too funny not to give you your +!
Is she gonna need a new passport?
Getting into Canada probably won’t be the problem, but getting BACK IN the US night become a bureaucratic nightmare - since you are not simply walking across the Rio Grande - may start a problem with a new name.
Home from work and hoping it will not rain any more until I get the grill lighted for pork chops-
To make a spoonerism
Refer to McInsane-
His collusion with fat Ted
Causes everyone pain
I suppose he thinks he can
Play both sides of the fence
He really needs to bet some Gauls
And stop being so dense
His stupid stance on shamesty
Is really quite the show-
Someone needs to take a fist
And strike him a blushing crow
That is wonderful, camle-CONGRATULATIONS!!!
A+ for you and the blushing crow!
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