A New Spoonerism

rogersgeorge on December 30th, 2019

A spoonerism is a pair of words whose first letters have been swapped for humorous effect. Named after a William Archibald Spooner, who was famous for doing this unintentionally.

I ran into a new one today:

Brevity Comic Strip for November 18, 2019 — https://www.gocomics.com/brevity/2019/11/18

Helps to know a little about professional football and that Steenwijk is a town in the Netherlands.

So what’s your favorite spoonerism?

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