Spoonerisms occur when you switch the first letter of a word, with a first letter of another word in the same sentence, often making you feel pretty dumb. This happens to me most often when I am speaking rather quickly so all the words start to jumble together causing me to speak in spoonerisms. There are some people however, who intentionally speak in spoonerisms for comedic purposes. There is man that visits the Arizona Renaissance Festival every year, and his act is performing well known stories in spoonerisms. I have been listening to these stories since before I could understand what the heck this guy was saying because my parents think he is one of the funniest people ever. So without further ado, I present to you Zilch the Torysteller.
Little Red Riding Hood
Love it! Falking in the woods! And I love love love his mandolin (off topic I know)
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have ever spoke in spoonerisms to be honest although I do jumble my words around.
Very funny guy though.
You know, when I was little my dad would actually tell a spoonerism version of Cinderella, and I never knew that what he did had a name till now! That is super funny and pretty awesome! It makes me happy to know that I'm not alone with my word jumble and occasional switching of letters!
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