TRICKS OF THE TONGUE
Not all the Spoonerisms were uttered by Sponner himself, though most of ! them are usually attributed to him when they reach print. Early in the Petrol Age (writes "L" to the "Manchester Guardian") my father was dining one day with friends who were lamenting (as usual) a new menace tn ■ "huntin'." "Yes," was the reply, "what j with all these trains and motor-cars, I there"ll soon be no shunting or hoot- ! ing worth having anywhere." A story cited in the "Gur.rdian" from A. D. Godley has another version, which declares that Spoonsr preached one day at the church in Wolvercote, then a really bucolic village just outside Oxford. He finished his sermon and : was half-way down the stairs from the pulpit when he stopped, as though remembering something. Then he turned and climbed slowly back again to say: "Er ... ah ... when ... in r>ie course of my remarks ... ah ... I have had occasion to mention ... er ... the philosopher Aristotle ... er ... you must understand me to have meant ... ah ... the epistle Paul." 1
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 6
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175TRICKS OF THE TONGUE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 6
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