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Subject: Tom's dictionary

Author:
Willie

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Date Posted: 05:18:36 11/16/02 Sat

My father knows what he likes to eat and will tell me on Friday evening as I'm leaving:

"Don't forget to buy some liver rust..."

Now... "liver rust" would appearr to be some distant verbal memory from his days in Canada in the 50s, when, I assume, he encountered liverwurst, which, as you know, is a type of pork and liver sausage. What he really wants is a packet of liver pat� that he enjoys snacking upon. Luckily I speak his lingo and usually remember to bring home his "liver rust".

"Spoonerism" comes from the name of the Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), a kindly but nervous Anglican clergyman and educationalist. (Courtesy of http://dictionary.reference.com)

spoonerism \SPOO-nuh-riz-uhm\, noun:

The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.

Some examples:

We all know what it is to have a half-warmed fish ["half-formed wish"] inside us.

The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].

It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.

Is the bean dizzy ["dean busy"]?

When the boys come back from France, we'll have the hags flung out ["flags hung out"]!

Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].

Though Tom doesn't apply himself to classic spoonerisms very often he has his own list of frequent mis-sayings:

The jockey, Richard Dunwoody becomes "Dunwordy". We look at re-runs of "Hawaii-oh-five". And "Fu-Kung". There was a show on TV years ago called "The Collaborators". This became "The Collabers".

Did you know that the Incredible Hulk went "besereck"?

I must sit down and try to remember some more.

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