Slang/spoonerism for "brain damage" A "spoonerism" is attributed to Rev. William Archibald Spooner; 1900: http://everything2.com/title/Spoonerism ;)
The word spoonerism is a singular noun. The plural form is spoonerisms.
What it means when you speak a spoonerism is you are changing the letters around in the sentence to make light of a subject or when you are making a mistake.
Spoonerism is a mistake in a person's speech where vowels, consonants, and morphemes are switched. These are often heard as slips of the tongue.
a spoonerism
A spoonerism!
maybe proper language or speech with no misspeaking.
Oh no, he had a spoonerism! Translates to -- Oh no, he had an accident!
what word category does spoonerism belong to
Spoonerism is the unintentional exchange of letters or syllables between two words or even within a word. The word derives from a 19th Century Clergyman. Also Metathesis is the reversal of letters within a word.
Bughum is the name of my band. It's a bit like a spoonerism of humbug.
Spoonerism belongs to the category of wordplay involving the swapping of the initial sounds of two words to create a humorous or nonsensical result. It is a type of linguistic error named after Reverend William Archibald Spooner.