I am not going to put on any weight until I’m fifty, when I shall allow myself to become matronly, ready to be a follower of ‘soda and gobbly matrons’, as enjoined by the marriage service. (A good Spoonerism that, created quite involuntarily by my mother some years ago.)

Dr. Ashok suffered from a mild form of metaphasis. He made Spoonerisms.

I tried to concentrate on this very tiny but very fascinating scandal-ette involving a leggy blonde Russian researcher, but Jude Law – and Spoonerisms – kept distracting me […] Now Nick Herbert had just been asked about cuts to front line policing. ‘I don’t accept that those are c****,’ he said, immediately correcting himself.

Spoonerism

Meaning

Noun

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