According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word spoonerism began appearing in the colloquial as early as 1885 when Spooner was 41. During World War II, he reassured his students, “When our boys come home ...
Pity the scholar, opening a lecture on Tacitus or William of Wykeham and looking out on a gaggle of leering undergraduates hoping he will twist a phrase or two to rude or amusing effect. Dr William ...