By: The English Doctor

Spoonerisms have been a part of the English language for over one hundred years. The origins go back to the Rev. William Archibald Spooner who was born in 1844 and who had a penchant for switching corresponding consonants, vowels to create sometimes unintended humorous phrases.

This error in speech is also known as marrowsky, who was a Polish count who mixed up his words the same way as the Rev. Spooner.

Peter Sellers in his role as the clumsy Inspector Clouseau in the movie "Shot in the Dark," said of a crime he was inspecting,"...the murderer killed him in a rit of fealous jage!" Of course, what he meant was, "...in a fit of jealous rage..."

Our language is full of classic spoonerisms. How about these nursery rhymes: "The Pee Little Thrigs," "Little Hood Redding Ride," "The Bree Thears," "Beeping Sleauty," "Starkle, Starkle Little Twink" and "Rindercella."

Or, maybe you have heard of these:

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

And in the movie, "The Devil Wears Prada," there is a song called "Don't Dink and Drance." And there was the British radio announcer who infamously introduced Sir Stafford Cripps, who was a famous British politician, as "Sir Stifford Crapps." And the television series, "Cagney and Lacey" had Sharon Gless make reference to a "comprinter pute-out."

There is also another classic uttered by someone who was obviously inebriated, "I'm not as drunk as some thinkle peep I am." Or how about this gem, "All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor." Perhaps one of the most famous spoonerisms happened during a live radio broadcast in 1931 when Harry von Zell accidentally mispronounced President Herbert Hoover's name as "Hoobert Heever."

Or another elbow bender who said, "I've had tee many Martoonies"

I will leave you with this little ditty from "Crostifer Colimbus and the Amovery of Disterica."

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Okay, you have hadally probbed enough.

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