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What is a spoonerism?

What is a spoonerism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.
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When I got home that night, the eggcorn led to the mondegreen, which is right up there with the spoonerism, and I forgot that the professor was making a point: spell-check does not catch homophones.
No, the spoonerism is one word-nightmare of many, or a bad case of word-flu.
Sometimes known as a spoonerism, The Brain Store has renamed this clever wordplay exercise.
Even with a cryptic device as established as the spoonerism, Araucaria played fast and loose, swapping the middles of words or whatever seemed most likely to raise a smile.
His avuncular manner and penchant for the occasional spoonerism endeared him to football fans, for if ever there was a man who wore his heart on his sleeve, it was he.

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