Spoonerisms

Spoonerisms involve taking a phrase and switching the first letters/sounds in the words. This can be done inside a single word by switching two sounds in the word to produce a new word, most commonly with two words by switching the first phoneme of each word with that of the other, or on long strings of words by switching beginning word sounds of given words.

If you have any good spoonerisms that aren't already recorded elsewhere, please send them to spoo at hw dot gy.

Below are some spoonerisms that came to me or my friends over the years. The list is not exhaustive, and in no particular order, and not necessarily polite.

• Knock wood
  • Walk nude
• Lend me the sink
  • Send me the link
• Running shape
  • shunning rape
• Got shunned
  • shotgunned
• Sold cokes
  • cold soaks
• bird watch
  • word botch
• sucking fanned

Not really spoonerisms, possibly Puns

• Data day