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"Let me sew you to your sheet," e.g
Answer for the clue ""Let me sew you to your sheet," e.g ", 10 letters:
spoonerism
Alternative clues for the word spoonerism
- Burly chassis for Shirley Bassey, say?
- A slip of the tongue? — no promises (anag)
- Trump the jack, e.g.
- Fighting a liar, e.g.
- Something said by self-described birdwatcher?
- What each of the other four longest answers in this puzzle is
- Silly sound transposition
- Loose Brie, for example
- Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
Word definitions for spoonerism in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Usage examples of spoonerism.
Two other special interest groups are SIGVOICE, concentrating on topics ranging from accents to spoonerisms, and SIGTRAN, dedicated to the art of translation.