William Archibald Spooner
British priest
Died when: 86 years 38 days (1033 months)Star Sign: Leo
William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don.He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect.
Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously.Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.
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