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Example sentences for: spooner

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The good Dr. Spooner, a kind man with white hair and cherubic face, served New College for a half century as distinguished scholar and able administrator.
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.
The answer is, to Spooner's eternal glory, that the warhorse darts into the fray.
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.
In the six decades since Dr. Spooner's death, the phenomenon of transposed sounds has found a firm place both in spoken and written language.