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--may be apocryphal.
Robert Archibald Ford's article, “Learn to Spike Lunars” [XVIII, 4], on the late Dr. Spooner of New College, Oxford, reminded me of two, doubtless apocryphal spoonerisms attributed to him.
The story of Columbus and the Madeiran archipelago is not entirely apocryphal, unlike so many other tales related to the islands.
A possibly apocryphal story from Herman Oliver's Gold and Cattle Country concerns a local prominence once called Squaw Tit (not all of the pioneers being missionaries); the Geographic Board decided the name was too earthy and, wishing to retain a semblance of the original appellation changed the name to Squaw Butte ; when the map came out with the new name, the final e was unfortunately omitted.
Although pushiness is not a quality naturally approved of in Cornwall, neither is undue modesty: standing in his own light like the Mayor of Market Jew (another apocryphal figure).