Fun with spoonerisms

Originally posted: 05/19/2021
A quick linguistic field trip 🎒
Transcription:
Okay. Have you ever spurred of hoonerisms? I mean, heard of spoonerisms? They're a way we sometimes fumble our words, a fun little language foible where we swap sounds. Spoonerisms are named after a guy named Spooner, a minister who was only ever confirmed to have made this mistake one time. In 1879, he used the phrase Cinkering Kongs instead of Conquering Kings, when he introduced a hymn at a church service. And then by 1921, the word was common enough that it was being used in print, which goes to show what a fickle and fragile thing your legacy can be. But that's beside the point.
Spoonerisms are often accidental, but then they can also be used on purpose as a kind of pun because when the result is two new words, it can be pretty funny. Okay, somewhat funny. We're not talking about anything uproarious here, folks. Calm down.
So for example, I think it's reasonable in any situation to be upset about a lack of pies. But when you're dealing with a conman, you'll also be upset about a pack of lies. Or, I doubt anyone's ever been so hungry that for a trail snack, they ate a snail track. Or, some people hate working so much they'd rather chew their doors than do their chores. That one's so dumb. And lastly, a popular spoonerism that's been used as a name of bands, albums, movies, companies, et cetera is cunning stunts, which flip flops to stunning cu-
#spoonerisms #funwithwords #languageisfun #puns #wordnerd

[@Yes_this_is_my_cat]

Yesterday I told my sibling: "Pee up hurrying I have to go too"

[@tennesseedarby5319]

See, I do spoonerisms a toooon in English (I speak French as a second language and they happen less). And some of them are actually somewhat elaborate even though they’re totally accidental, such as swapping three whole sounds or syllables, swapping sounds in the middle of the words, etc. And the fact that I seem to do it more than most people and the science behind why they happen greatly interest me

[@DevjKaiser]

Now I can use this as an excuse to my constant flip flops when speaking lol

[@shirleyarches3143]

I have already speard of hoonerisms.

[@I_know_it_I_sew_it_I_grow_it]

I spuve loonerisms.

[@lydiasvlogs6302]

What a fluster cluck

[@Osiris2134]

We got this teacher called Mister Summers who we all just call Sister Mummers for some reason.

[@cherylwade264]

Fuddruckers

[@cutelittledevil88]

Now that IS an awesome bandname.

[@cslance6863]

That building has a nice instrafucture

[@user-hk3eu7bg5y]

i have to shake a tower or take a shower. that's a spoonerism.

[@PierIsABaraReader]

So basically how Weird Al does the parody? 🤣