William Archibald Spooner

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United Kingdom, Activist
July 22, 1844August, 29, 1930.

William Archibald Spooner was a long-serving Oxford don, notable for absent-mindedness, and supposedly liable to mix up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.

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