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TheBroadway | 17:22 Wed 10th Sep 2008 | Arts & Literature
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What is it called when the first letter of a word is replaced the first letter of another word - for example:

Bavid Deckham

Hottenham Totspur

etc.

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Spoonerism ?
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excellent - thanks
spoonerism is the right answer just ask Jasper Carrott
dyslexia? I am dyslexic.
you have hissed all my mystery lectures...
..tasted the whole worm and must take the next town drain
Here's a toast to the queer old dean............!
Robin Hood and his merrymen played this game with their names.

Robin Hood became Hobin Rood

Little John became Jittle Lohn

Will Scarlet became Scill Warlet

and Friar Tuck wasn't allowed to play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"�This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.
��Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion.
Rindercella �worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and shivelling shot.
At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered."

The above is a small excerpt from the classic "spoonerism"
by the late Ronnie Barker -superbly delivered on TV so immaculately and swiftly -no one complained! (1970s)

Matheous - - - Ronnie Barker never did this version of Rindercella, despite all the round robin e-mails suggesting it is his.
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