Goonerisms spalore!
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"Prinderella and the Cince Told by Cynthia Hall Domine"
Isn't that a shirty dame?
Selected readings
- "Obscene spoonerism and stupid verbing discussion on Radio 4" (12/6/10)
- "Thematic spoonerisms?" (7/14/19)
- "Finger spoonerisms and conservation of caps" (6/23/10)
- "More possible than they can powerfully imagine" (7/31/09)
- "'The travesty that is taking fold'" (10/28/19)
- "Nuckin Futs" (1/18/12)
Erwin said,
May 14, 2020 @ 12:45 am
Laps cloudly.
Mark Liberman said,
May 14, 2020 @ 4:29 am
See also "Noi lai and contrepets", 1/8/2005.
More on these literary spoonerisms (spiterary loonerisms?):
"La Contrepèterie";
"Nói lái";
Marlys Macken and Hanh T. Nguyen, "Nói Lái and the structure of the syllable", Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 2006;
Denise François, "Le contrepet", La Linguistique 1966.
Ralph Hickok said,
May 14, 2020 @ 8:20 am
This is one of Colonel Stoopnagle's "Twisted Tales" that I heard 70 or more years ago on the radio. He really should have been credited.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/1891135031.html
Peter B. Golden said,
May 14, 2020 @ 9:14 am
Dain Bramage
Francois lang said,
May 14, 2020 @ 1:36 pm
For a more modern take on such literary wonders
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/books/runny-babbit