A spoonerism is a play on words in which sounds are switched between words in a phrase, as in looking at a clear, sunny sky and saying, “Isn’t it a dutiful bay?
Readers enjoy unusual twists on what is already familiar. In the 1970s, English comedian and actor Ronnie Barker wrote Rindercella, twisting words and making us laugh at what we already knew about Cinderella.
Archie Campbell made the routine famous on the television show Hee Haw when he described the “geautiful burl who slopped her dripper.”
