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This can be referred to as a "spoonerism." It is a form of metathesis, the switching of sounds in a word or between words, e.g. Barkley as broccoli.

The term is named for the Reverend William Archibald Spponer (1844-1930).

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Q: What is the transposition of the initial consonants or consonant clusters of pairs of words?
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