[Sca-cooks] Old?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Ted Eisenstein wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 6/13/2001 7:17:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >rygbee at montana.com writes:
> >
> >> and developed what I called "noun aphasia" when I would talk and the
> >>  wrong word came out but it started with the same 1st letter.  It also gets
> >>  worse when I haven't had enough sleep.
> >
> >Is that what they call it? I do that, and what do they call automatic
> >transposition of syllables? Sometimes I can't say "Fuddruckers" or "Chicken
> >Friccase (sp?)" in polite company...
>
> Oh dear, I've forgotten the word for that: I believe the most famous
> exemplar of that was a Victorian-era professor who was well known
> for syllabic mayhem - "Here's to our Queer old Dean" rather than "Dear
> old Queen"; and "You have hissed all my mystery lectures" rather
> than "missed all my history lectures."
>
> (Damn memory of mine.  <sigh> And I don't even have any weird
> diseases to blame it on, it's just a bad memory. . . )

Reverend Oswald (I think) Spooner. Hence, Spoonerisms.

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com