What is it called when a person accidentally reverses the first letters or syllables of two adjacent words?
It’s difficult to search for an abstract concept if you don’t know what it’s called — we tried some fancy advanced keyword searches on a few of our favorite search engines, and even asked the Web’s best-known butler, with no success. Instead, we decided to take a look at one of our favorite Yahoo! categories: Words and Wordplay. As we browsed the list of sub-categories, our eyes began to glaze over — eponyms, homonyms, oxymorons, palindromes, and then… Aha! We spied Spoonerisms — a “reversal of the initial letters or syllables of two or more words,” according to a definition from the Encyclopdia Britannica. We clicked over to a collection of sites about these sometimes deli
