Spoonerism

Reversal of the initial letters or syllables of two or more words, such as �I have a half-warmed fish in my mind� (for �half-formed wish�) and �a blushing crow� (for �a crushing blow�). The word was derived from the name of William Archibald Spooner (1844 - 1930), a distinguished Anglican clergyman and warden of New College, Oxford, a nervous man who committed many �spoonerisms.� Such transpositions