The name of a 19th century Warden of New College, Oxford, UK, is given to which play on words, deliberate or not, in which corresponding sounds are switched between words?
William Archibald Spooner In the opinion of Roy Harrod, Spooner exceeded all the heads of Oxford and Cambridge colleges he had known "having regard to his scholarship, devotion to duty, and wisdom." Spooner was buried in the cemetery at Grasmere in Cumbria. Spooner has become famous for his (real or alleged) "spoonerisms", plays on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched. Few, if any, of his own spoonerisms were deliberate, and many of those attributed to him are apocryphal. Spooner is said to have disliked the reputation gained for getting his words muddled. "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" (3rd edition,
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