When:
July 22, 2017 all-day
2017-07-22T00:00:00-06:00
2017-07-23T00:00:00-06:00
Where:
http://www.fun-with-words.com/spoon_explain.html

Spooner Day July 22. A day named for the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (born at London, England, July 22, 1844, warden of New College, Oxford, 1903 24, died at Oxford, England, Aug 29, 1930), whose frequent slips of the tongue led to coinage of the term spoonerism to describe them. A day to remember the scholarly man whose accidental transpositions gave us blushing crow (for crushing blow), tons of soil (for sons of toil), queer old dean (for dear old queen), swell foop (for fell swoop) and half-warmed fish (for half-formed wish).

Image: Caricature by Leslie Ward (1851–1922), Public Domain

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