Sunday Times News: Spoonerisms are words or phrases in which the letters or syllables get swapped. This is an accidental slip of tongue, or 'tip of slung', as spoonerism ...

He would only ever admit to one of them, but there have been some pretty famous and entertaining Spoonerisms over the years; here are just a few of them. 1. Runny Babbit.

Dear Richard Lederer: Have you ever done a column on spoonerisms? My husband and I find them amusing and entertaining, yet we are a little amazed that so many of our friends haven’t heard of Rev ...

•Spoonerisms are what you get when a speaker mixes up sounds, making phrases such as better Nate than lever. •Mondegreens are what you get when listeners mishear words; for example when people think ...

The NBA, by nature of being a thing that has a lot of names in it, is the breeding ground for many great spoonerisms, which is what happens when you take a name and flip the first letters in each ...

Delightful Spoonerisms, Despiteful Lunarisms A "spoonerism" is a play on words in which the initial sounds of two words are reversed. Play a game in which puzzle guru John Chaneski asks ...

Obviously, with the NCAA men’s basketball tournament starting on Tuesday night with two games of the First Four, it is time to take the coaches, spoonerize their names, and then rank said ...

The Executive’s spoonerisms bring silly joy to a fun movie-studio sim. You may love John Waters’ movies, but what about Wohn Jaters? by Pete Volk. Feb 27, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC ...

In English, we call these Spoonerisms, after William Archibald Spooner, a kindly if rather absent-minded Oxford don who lived from 1844 to 1930.