- A
spoonerism is an
occurrence of
speech in
which corresponding consonants, vowels, or
morphemes are
switched (see metathesis)
between two
words of a phrase...
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unintentionally comic effect. Such
phrases became known as
spoonerisms, and are
often used humorously. Many
spoonerisms have been
invented and
attributed to Spooner...
- kääntösana, is a sort of
verbal play in the
Finnish language,
similar to
spoonerisms in English.
Special to
Finnish is a
narrow phoneme inventory and vowel...
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Smart Feller **** Smeller: And
Other Spoonerisms is a 2006 book by Jon Agee. The book is
filled with
spoonerisms that are
formed as
questions or answers...
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surreal or
repetitive plotline,
before ending the
story with
either a weak
spoonerism, or
abruptly stopping with no real
punchline at all, or no soap radio...
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United States.
Common characteristics of
Bushisms include malapropisms,
spoonerisms, the
creation of
neologisms or
stunt words, and
errors in subject–verb...
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commonly English).
Antimetabole Anti-proverb
Chiasmus Russian reversal Spoonerism Pollack, John (2012). The Pun Also Rises.
Gotham Books. pp. 12–13....
- are an
American mathcore band from Atlanta, Georgia.
Their name is a
spoonerism of the
football team the
Dallas Cowboys. The
Callous Daoboys released...
- amu****t.
Examples of word play
include puns,
phonetic mix-ups such as
spoonerisms,
obscure words and meanings,
clever rhetorical excursions,
oddly formed...
- of
words that had
meaningful spoonerisms related to both stimuli.
Primed parti****nts had a far
higher rate of
spoonerism related to the
specific stimulus...
