Named after William Spooner, who was an Oxford Don methinks, this is the swapping of the beginnings of two words in a sentence with comic result.
For example, instead of “My Lord is a loving shepherd” we can have “My Lord is a shoving leopard”
And “He struck a crushing blow” becomes “He struck a blushing crow”
Make your own!
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Rachey
/ 6 March, 2007I did these things with my year 7 class. 😛 They’re also used as a measure of phonological encoding ability to detect early reading problems. So there you go! 🙂
Naz responds:- I bet you had to look that up!
S
/ 7 March, 2007‘Reggae Reggae!!’: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/07032007/344/chef-s-reggae-sauce-sainsbury-s.html