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It seems like a spoonerism is unintentional. I feel like a pun for most people means word play. Spoonerism. a verbal error in which a speaker accidentally tran
by d0lph 8y ago
It seems like a spoonerism is unintentional. I feel like a pun for most people means word play.
Spoonerism.
a verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words, often to humorous effect, as in the sentence you have hissed the mystery lectures, accidentally spoken instead of the intended sentence you have missed the history lectures.
- heckanoobs 8y agoYeah I personally use the concepts interchangeably but if you go to the pun competitions in the bay area they will disqualify spoonerisms in the general sense which includes any partial word substitutions like "punderdome"
- bradknowles 8y agoThere are those of us for whom Spoonerisms are a legit speech impediment. It rarely happens to me anymore, but rare != never.