Verbal Trickery

Reverend William Archibald Spooner was an Oxford don famed for his tendency to transpose the initial letter or sound of adjacent words, sometimes with hilarious results. And so the spoonerism was born as a generic for such verbal trickery.

Category

Poems about life and death

Sub-category

Funny biographical poems

Author

Rev. Spooner

Is this
One of his
Famed mucked-up
Sentences?

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