Spoonerisms question

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 17 21:12:05 UTC 2014


Has anyone compiled a list of individual spoonerisms with initial
citations? I've looked in a few places for benchmark citations:

ADS archives, Yale Book of Quotations, Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations, Brewer's, Cassell's, Wikipedia: Spoonerism, Get Thee to a
Punnery by Richard Lederer

I've found some citations for individual spoonerisms that are earlier
than those specified in the references / sources above. The goal is to
enrich the best information currently known. Has anyone written an
academic review article with up-to-date citations? Is there a
specialized mailing list on the topic with eager antedaters?

Garson

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