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when your tongue swaps letters and accidentally invents better words than you meant.
means a slip of the tongue where the initial sounds of two or more words get swapped, often to funny effect.
from named after reverend william archibald spooner, an oxford don supposedly prone to saying things like a well-boiled icicle instead of a well-oiled bicycle.
named aftera real oxford clergyman, born 1844
most cited exampleprobably apocryphal, invented by his students
linguistic termalso called a marrowsky in some circles
brain scienceshows how speech planning works ahead of speaking