SPOONERISM.

Shannon News, 5 October 1923, Page 4

SPOONERISM.

LAUGABLE oxford cult. Canon Spooner, warden of Hew College Oxford, who lias just entered his eightieth year, has few if any rivals as the innocent cause of many laughs. As an author of the transposition of letters from one word to another he £s unwittingly founded the "SpoonW One ofhis famous breaks occurred immediately after a wedding at which he had presided when he said. It is kistomary to cuss the biide. It is said that on one occasion when lie was saying good-bye to a woraa ! relative at the station he absent-mind-edly kissed the porter and gave a sixpence tip to the female relative. _ Among the other mistakes credited to the popular canon are. his references to ’’kinquering congs,’’ when he meant conquering kings, and to a camel passing through the knee of at Portsmouth he said he wanted to see the “cattleships and brfiisers.’’ But one of his most famous ! breaks was during the Victoria lubi ee ’ celebrations when he ca for „ ! cheers for the queer old dean when 3 1 he meant dear old Queen.