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Spoonerisms.

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A spoonerism is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words in a phrase. An example is saying "The Lord is a shoving leopard" instead of "The Lord is a loving shepherd."

Does Spanish have spoonerisms?

Examples:

Fish and chips – (Pescado y patatas fritas) - Chish and fips.

Public carpark. - (Aparcamiento público) - Cublic parcark.

Add your favourites, especially any Spanish ones.

This is just for fun. smile

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I'll try and think of one. :) - rac1, Sep 3, 2016
Fo gor it. :) - ian-hill, Sep 3, 2016
Great mate , I shall refrain from posting . No wuckin furries . - ray76, Sep 3, 2016
:) - ian-hill, Sep 4, 2016

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No bout adoubt it. ~ No doubt about it

Sin duda alguna

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What a lack of pies .Qué falta de empanadas.

What a pack of lies .Lo que una sarta de mentiras.

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Okay, jtaniel. Here ya go.

"La gelatina está casi firme", afirmó Tom.

"The Jello is almost set," Tom affirmed.

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Excellent. - jtaniel, Sep 6, 2016
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the whole fam damily

go help me sod

belly jeans

the wish dasher

tip of the slung

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What a " taste of wime" . - ray76, Sep 6, 2016
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Shall we add Tom Swifties?

A Tom Swifty (or Tom Swiftie) is a phrase in which a quoted sentence is
attributed with a pun.

Voy a curar mi propia enfermedad, dijo el médico pacientemente.

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I have never heard of those - but a vote anyway amigo. - ian-hill, Sep 6, 2016
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I have a "Spoonish Spanerism" (This Enlgish one isn't exactly "lopped chiver" either.

When I was teaching Sunday School to little kids I used to talk about "El Suen Barmaritano" (The Good Samaritan --spoonerized in Spanish)

The kids would crack up and correct me. I had a few more which I can't think of right now.

El Suen Bamaritano

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:)) - ian-hill, Sep 4, 2016
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The Reverend William Archibald Spooner was born in London on July 22, 1844. He was an albino and suffered defective eyesight, and it is thought that this caused some of his verbal confusions which were later dubbed "spoonerisms". These included "it is kisstomary to cuss the bride".


Spooner, who died on August 29, 1930, was an Anglican priest, scholar and writer. He studied at New College, Oxford, before lecturing there for 60 years, in history, philosophy and divinity.

He was apparently an amiable, kind and hospitable man, though absent-minded. He also had a keen intellect, which is where his problems began. His tongue barely kept up with his thought processes, resulting in an unintentional interchange of sounds, producing a phrase with a meaning entirely different from the one intended. That is what is now called a spoonerism.


•*Calling John Millington Synge's famous Irish play "The Ploughboy of the Western World.

At a wedding: "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride."

• "Blushing crow" for "crushing blow."

• "The Lord is a shoving leopard" (Loving shepherd).

• "A well-boiled icicle" for "well-oiled bicycle."

• "I have in my bosom a half-warmed fish" (for half-formed wish), supposedly said in a speech to Queen Victoria.

A toast to "our queer old dean" instead of to "our dear old Queen."

• "Go and shake a tower" (Go and take a shower).

Paying a visit to a college official: "Is the bean dizzy?"

• "You will leave by the town drain."

When our boys come home from France, we will have the hags flung out.

• "Such Bulgarians should be vanished..." (Such vulgarians should be banished).

Upon dropping his hat: "Will nobody pat my hiccup?"

Addressing farmers as "ye noble tons of soil".

• "You have tasted a whole worm" (to a lazy student).

• "**The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer.***"

And, the classic: "Mardon me padom, you are occupewing my pie. May I sew you to another sheet?"

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:) - ian-hill, Sep 4, 2016