A spoonerism's an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis). It's named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency. It's also known as a marrowsky, after a Polish count who suffered from the same impediment. While spoonerisms are commonly heard as slips of the tongue resulting from unintentionally getting one's wor… (More on Spoonerism)