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English9-2008-CatherineH
Monday, September 8, 2008
Spoonerism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: An accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds.
Sentence: He wanted to say wave the sails but he said save the whales, which is a spoonerism.
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