William Archibald Spooner
British priest known for his Spoonerisms (1844-1930) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 86
William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously.
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Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.
