Word: spoonerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawrence Whipple Spooner as assistant in Chemistry...
...Messiah, who recently went back on his backers by announcing that organization is wrong, individuality best. An apocryphal story (which Biographer Williams does not include) tells how Mrs. Besant tried to get Krishnamurti into Oxford. Applying first to the Warden of New College (the late famed Canon William Archibald Spooner), she described her charge as an incarnation of God. The Warden blenched, categorically refused to admit such a Presence, which might prove embarrassing to the other undergraduates. The Master of Balliol shook his head regretfully, said they had had a great many famous people at Balliol but would have...
...obituary notice of Dean Spooner in TIME, Sept. 8, together with a few choice specimens of Spoonerisms, suggests these which you might possibly like to add to your collection. I am sorry that I cannot vouch for their authenticity...
...Canon Spooner claimed that he was guilty of one spoonerism only in all his life, to wit: "The Kinkering Kongs their places take." The rest were just due to people picking...
Died. William Archibald Spooner, 86, oldtime classics scholar at Oxford University, onetime honorable canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, editor of a once-famed text, The Histories of Tacitus, originator of "Spoonerisms"; at New College, Oxford. Typical "Spoonerisms...