英语词汇spoonerism的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

spoonerism. The Reverend William Archibald Spooner, dean and later warden of New College, Oxford, was a learned man, but not spell woken—well spoken, that is. “We all know what it is, to have a half-warmed fish inside us,” he once told an audience, meaning to say “half-formed wish.” On another occasion he advised his congregation that the next hymn would be “Kingering Congs Their Titles Take,” instead of “Conquering Kings Their Titles Take,” and he is said to have explained to listeners one time that “the Lord is a shoving leopard.” Spooner’s slips occurred both in church, where he once remarked to a lady, “Mardon me Padom, this pie is occu- pewed, allow me to sew you to another sheet,” and told a ner- vous bridegroom that “it is kisstomery to cuss the bride,” and in his classes, where he chided one student with, “You hissed my mystery lecture,” and dismissed another with, “You have deliberately tasted two worms and can leave Oxford by the town drain!” Nobody knows how many of these spoonerisms were really made by Spooner, but they were among the many attributed to him. Spooner was an albino, and his metathetical troubles were probably due to nervousness and poor eyesight resulting from his condition. The scientific name for his speech affliction is metathesis, the accidental transposition of letters or syllables in the words of a sentence, the process known long before Spooner made it so popular that his slips of the tongue and eye were widely imitated. Spooner, who lived to the ripe old age of 86, once called Queen Victoria “our queer old dean” when trying to say “our dear old queen.” See marrowsky.

词汇	spoonerism
词源	spoonerism. The Reverend William Archibald Spooner, dean and later warden of New College, Oxford, was a learned man, but not spell woken—well spoken, that is. “We all know what it is, to have a half-warmed fish inside us,” he once told an audience, meaning to say “half-formed wish.” On another occasion he advised his congregation that the next hymn would be “Kingering Congs Their Titles Take,” instead of “Conquering Kings Their Titles Take,” and he is said to have explained to listeners one time that “the Lord is a shoving leopard.” Spooner’s slips occurred both in church, where he once remarked to a lady, “Mardon me Padom, this pie is occu- pewed, allow me to sew you to another sheet,” and told a ner- vous bridegroom that “it is kisstomery to cuss the bride,” and in his classes, where he chided one student with, “You hissed my mystery lecture,” and dismissed another with, “You have deliberately tasted two worms and can leave Oxford by the town drain!” Nobody knows how many of these spoonerisms were really made by Spooner, but they were among the many attributed to him. Spooner was an albino, and his metathetical troubles were probably due to nervousness and poor eyesight resulting from his condition. The scientific name for his speech affliction is metathesis, the accidental transposition of letters or syllables in the words of a sentence, the process known long before Spooner made it so popular that his slips of the tongue and eye were widely imitated. Spooner, who lived to the ripe old age of 86, once called Queen Victoria “our queer old dean” when trying to say “our dear old queen.” See marrowsky.
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