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4 days ago · Spooner as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1898. Spoonerisms are named for the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden from 1903 to 1924 of New College, Oxford , who was allegedly susceptible to this mistake.
4 hours ago · Utah State CB Andre Seldon Jr. dies of apparent drowning after cliff diving incident. Seldon had just transferred to Utah State for his final year of eligibility. 5d ago. Just up the road from ...
2 days ago · A spoonerism is a speech error in which the speaker switches the initial consonants of two consecutive words. If you say "bunny phone" instead of "funny bone," you've uttered a spoonerism. "Jelly beans" becomes "belly jeans." "Son, it is now kisstumary to cuss the bride." You get the idea.
2 days ago · Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphletist, political philosopher, Unitarian and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition . Spooner was a strong advocate of the labor movement and is politically identified with ...
23 hours ago · Just up the road from Shell Lake, the town of Spooner is home to what’s believed to be the only museum dedicated to canoeing in the entire U.S. Paris Olympics' First Positive Steroid Test Is In ...
23 hours ago · Michael Spooner died on Sunday evening after an incident outside the Red Lion pub in Quebec Street 24 hours earlier. In a statement, his family said: "Michael was a kind and gentle soul who always ...
1 day ago · MUSCLE SHOALS — Spooner Oldham recalled the frustration of trying to write a song for the Box Tops in the late 1960s with his partner Dan Penn, bending over and placing his head in his hands on ...
