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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.
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.
' ” Slips allegedly uttered by Spooner himself bring a smile: “Who has not felt in his heart a half-warmed fish to live a nobler life?”
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.
Dr. Spooner's proverbial half-warmed fish for half-formed wish has a totally different sound and meaning if written as “half-wormed fish,” requiring the spelling to be changed.