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What are spoonerisms?

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There was a college dean who was always saying things like "shake a tower" (take a shower) and "cake a bake" (bake a cake), reversing the first letters of words. The dean's last name was Spooner. So his students started calling his messed up words "spoonerisms." See the Related Link below.

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What is spoonerism?
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