tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 05 08:58:22 1999
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Re: Okrand speaks: What time is it?
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:52:19 -0800 (PST) "Lieven L. Litaer"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >The word for spoon is {baghneQ}. That's a spoonerism for "flat
> >rock", which would be {nagh beQ}.
>
>
> What's a spoonerism? Twisting letters?
>
> muHwI'
Well, yes. It is swapping initial consonants between two
adjacent words. There was a high member of the church with the
last name Spooner who was notorious for doing this by mistake,
so they named the trait after him. If you take a few diff
strinks, until you are ploroughly thrastered, and then take a
rape tecorder and specord your reech, you may discover why
Spooner falked so tunny.
charghwI' 'utlh