Today is Spoonerism Day, or Doonerism Spay if you prefer, named after Rev. W. A. Spooner, 1844-1930, who evidently had a habit of flipping the beginning sounds of words. I decided to play with this using commercials I saw on TV this evening. How about some Bunny Hunches of Boats? Japa Pons? Quarry Dean? Late Grolf Wodge? Dimmy Jean? Fate Starm? You get the idea. But back to Rev. Spooner. His speech predicament reminded me of a speech problem a pastor at the church of my youth had. The benediction at the end of every service included the phrase "may the peace that passeth understanding..." He just couldn't say 'passeth,' at least not every time. It was just as likely to come out 'pathess.' I don't know why he just didn't say 'passes' which would have been much easier. But that was probably much too modern for the MSL church in 1958.
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