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spoon·er·ism

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NOUN:

A transposition of sounds of two or more words, especially a ludicrous one, such as Let me sew you to your sheet for Let me show you to your seat.

ETYMOLOGY:
After William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), British cleric and scholar

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