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A slip of the tongue? - no promises
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spoonerism
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A spoonerism is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants , vowels , or morphemes are switched (see metathesis ) between two words in a phrase. An example is saying "The Lord is a shoving leopard" instead of " The ...
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n. A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.
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Two other special interest groups are SIGVOICE, concentrating on topics ranging from accents to spoonerisms, and SIGTRAN, dedicated to the art of translation.