Spoonerisms

Examples below are quoted from "Kotoba Asobi Jyuni Koo" ( 12 lessons about Word-playing) written in English, by GUNSI Toshio (publisher: Taisyukan Syoten, ISBN 4-469-21113-3)

Example

• cook base(for "book case")
• bold cutter (for "cold butter")
• feeping creaturism (for "creeping featurism")
• Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Hoobert Heever
• Kinkering Congs (for "Conquering Kings") their titles take
• our queer old dean (for "our dear old queen")
• Well-boiled Icicle (for "Well-oiled Bicycle")
• You hissed my mystery lectures.
• Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?

• When wigs for women became the rage in the early 1970s, a brunette secretary came to work one morning looking like a seductive blonde.
  "How do you like that? " a male employee asked the boss.
  "Like it?" he repeated. "I think it's a sham dame."

• Outside, a roaring pain is falling.
• What is the difference between a dark cloud and a whipped boy? --- One pours with rain, the other roars with pain.
• What is the difference between a girl and a pair of pajamas? --- One is born to wed, the other is worn to bed.
• You have tasted the whole worm. (for "You have wasted the whole term.")
• Ruman and Normalhart (Both Dr. Norman and Dr. Rumelhart are professors for cognitive science.)

Links

• Spoonerisms
• Spoonersim(Wikipedia)

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