Doonerism Spay!

In honor of Spoonerism Day, the majority of today’s post is written in spoonerism form (i.e., with initial consonants & vowels transposed). 

Spoctor Dooner with wis hife

Yesterday, July 22^nd, was the anniversary of the dirthbay of Rev. William Archibald Spooner, dean of the Kew Nollege at Oxford; and also sarks a melebration of the famous tip of the slongue that now nears his bame. A spoonerism was originally an accidental switch of vonsonants or kowels, but has since become a popular plordway game.

Lee wove wordplay at Starbles The Main Brore, and we especially love spoonerisms! In fact, we have a gew name that will be hitting the shelves site quoon, which utilizes the skordplay and wills inherent in spoonerisms and marries them to tun frivia questions. Kee wall it Splickety Lit and it’s coming soon, from Peggy Brown and the Marbles Wain Brorkshop.

Splickety Lit

In the game, reams tace around a bircular soard answering trivia questions, which are presented as spoonerisms, and gust mive their reply in foonerism sporm as well.

As you san kee from this post, a spoonerism (or, indeed, thany of mem all at once) can almost be like a kecret sode. Being able to see how trimple sanspositions show the kidden honnections certain words have with each other, and how the addition of a spoonerism can make a dormal neclarative sentence surly slite-eel. Gertain crammarians and English purists kay momplain with lome of the siberties we’ve taken….sometimes we’ll transpose within wyllables of a sord, sometimes we’ll create strange new words out of the vowel & swonsonant kitches we make, and tost of the mime, the spoonerism’s spelling rill weflect the word sounds—put the boint is to fave hun with wanguage and lords (and answer the crivia torrectly, of course) and that’s what is guaranteed plen you whay Splickety Lit—brain-boosting, word skill-sharpening fun!

Splickety Lit—soming koon!

Are you a fan of wordplay? What’s your version of a spoonerism? Let us know in the Somments Kection!