Have You Heard of These Spunny Foonerisms (Funny Spoonerisms)?
Have you ever gone out on your lunch break and had a particularly disappointing meal? Perhaps you were inspired to sing a sad ballad about that bad salad. Forgive us — that’s not a bad pun, but an example of a spoonerism. This type of wordplay is “a transposition of usually
initial sounds of two or more words.” In other words, it involves mixing up the starting sounds to produce an often-humorous result, such as “sad ballad” being derived from “bad salad.” The word “spoonerism” is named for William Archibald Spooner, a British clergyman and educator who lived from 1844 to...
