Re: Strong/strange verbs and spoonerisms (was RE:Ungrammaticalization?)

Nik Taylor wrote:

> My favorite is when he made a toast "to our queer dean", instead of "to
> our dear queen"; and yes, the dean was rumored to be gay.
Naah.  Sorry, but naah.  The Spoo (as his students called him)
never delivered a spoonerism in his life, as far as anyone knows.
All that about "You have deliberately tasted two worms [wasted
two terms] and may leave Oxford by the town drain [down train,
i.e. train departing Oxford]" is mere folk process.

--
        John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      cowan@ccil.org
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau,
Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
                        -- Coleridge / Politzer