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Spooner admitted “occasional infelicities in verbal diction” but became openly irritated when his name was associated with oral transpositions.
Each time I visit Oxford, I walk past the Bodleian Library, pass under the Bridge of Sighs, and turn down the narrow lane that leads to Oxford University's New College, treading the same path as the late venerable Reverend Doctor William Archibald Spooner.
As I often say: “To spooner not to spoon?”
Although Freud, so far as I know, did not discuss Spoonerisms on his classic analysis of slips-of-the-tongue, his theories as to the psychoanalytic implications of transposed sounds, such as those attributed to Rev. Spooner, could have been usefully added to Learn To Spike Lunars [ XVIII , 4] by Robert Archibald Ford.
Spooner's most widely quoted slip was his firm announcement to a student, You have hissed my mystery lecture.
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