# Real-life Spoonerisms **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 15, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151 "2004-04-15T12:29:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/21 "2004-04-16T14:10:17Z")
Back in the days before ATMs, my mom would often tell us, “You girls stay here in the car. I’m just running in the store to check a cash.” It’s one of the family in-jokes. ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/22 "2004-04-16T15:05:57Z")
Once on a fishing trip with a couple of friends, and after many beers, one guy lands a rather nice Red-Eared Sunfish. Buddy#1: “Wow! Look at this Reddish Sunfear!” Buddy#2: “And what would that be? An embarrassed vampire?” ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/23 "2004-04-16T15:06:17Z")
Once, I believe my parents were gone for the weekend or the week or something, and I was going somewhere with a friend. Somehow the conversation turned to the amount of gas left in the car, and my friend remarked, “It’s a good thing your parents left you with a full gank of tas.” Another time, two of my friends got into a short argument about the ordering of two words, which promptly ended when one retorted with “fecking fustive” (festive fucking). ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/24 "2004-04-16T16:27:52Z")
Oh and I forgot … I had a teacher at High School who’s name was Doctor Dick (yes really!!), I called him Dickter Dock one day ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/25 "2004-04-16T16:49:51Z")
One time I was talking to my role-playing friends about a guy we knew who had tried to commit suicide. I ended up spoonerizing while trying to say ‘Psycho ward’. So the next time we went roleplaying, the smartass DM sent us on a quest for the ever elusive ‘Wiko Sword’ I also usually end up refering to a certain new Red Sox player as ‘shirt killing’ unless I really concentrate. ---
**Author:** ![silkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@silkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silkie)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/26 "2004-04-16T16:53:39Z")
When i was a young, painfully shy techy student I was chatting to young, female, gorgeous, very christian law student in whom i was hopelessly smitten. The conversation moved on to the formal titles of the Royal Family and I wanted to say Victoria Regina… BTW: A question for the Grammer Police: was i smitten in her or smitten by her? ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/27 "2004-04-16T18:23:54Z")
> [@Vunderbob](#): > > Oh, and with reference to “Betty Swollocks”; I can’t shout ‘Band Name!’, but it would make a wonderful user handle… 😉 Let the Mods and Admin know, I’m calling dibs on that one. It may be feminine but I like it. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/28 "2004-04-16T21:58:51Z")
> [@silkie](#): > > BTW: A question for the Grammer Police: was i smitten in her or smitten by her? I’ve always said it as smitten **with** her. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/29 "2004-04-16T22:14:27Z")
> [@milquetoast](#): > > I’ve always said it as smitten **with** her. But then apparently I’m a fool. [Dictionary.com](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=smitten) says _smitten_ is a derivation of _smite_. I never knew that. So you are smitten **by** her in that she brings you to your knees with a crushing blow (or a _brushing crow_ to stick with the theme). ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/30 "2004-04-16T22:16:50Z")
That, of course, should be _blushing crow_. :rolleyes: I’m leaving now. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/31 "2004-04-16T22:50:59Z")
I do the spoonerism thing all the damn time, much to my 14-year old daughter’s amusement. Can’t think of one bloody example now, though, of course. However, said 14-year old once got really frustrated with the dishwasher and exclaimed, “Oh, fer crying out Pete!” which we now use CONSTANTLY. ---
**Author:** ![Furry\_Mongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Furry\_Mongoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furry_Mongoose)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/32 "2004-04-16T22:54:46Z")
I have this badge that says “cunning stunt”… No matter how careful I try and read it I always say it the other way… I hate the word too. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/33 "2004-04-16T22:58:12Z")
I never should have started this, cause now everything gets spoonerized in my head without my trying. Today at the office we had to find a place for a new electic hole puncher, and I don’t know how many times I started to say “pole huncher” before catching myself. A few years ago I worked w/ a guy who claims he spoonerized his brother’s girlfriend’s name in front of the family once. Been trying to remember what it was, and this afternoon it came to me – Kerry Hunt. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/34 "2004-04-17T00:13:20Z")
My sister-in-law visited us Super Bowl weekend several years ago. We took her out to drinks and dinner which turned into many drinks before dinner, and, as the conversation turned to the upcoming game, we began speculating whether our team would correctly call the **toin coss**. Say it out loud: toin coss. Doesn’t it sound right? It is now the official way to pronounce it in our family and I find it extremely difficult to say it any other way. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151/35 "2004-04-17T00:52:09Z")
I knew a guy who had a desk nameplate made up that said “Buck Futt.” Nearly impossible to say without unconsciously spoonerizing. Brilliant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-spoonerisms/240151.md?page=1)