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Spoonerism Story - Nate Dight Trivia Quiz

Or should that be 'Stoonerism Spory'? I've written a brief story with words missing. You just need to select the correct spoonerism that will make sense when it was solved.

by Midget40. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Midget40

Time
4 mins

Type

Quiz #
415,832

Updated
Mar 12 24

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
17 / 20

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Top 5% quiz!

Last 3 plays: rascal2 (20/20), Geoff565 (18/20), Ajs1770 (20/20).

At work today I couldn't stop all afternoon as I was for a blind date with someone I had met online. I caught the bus home to my only to find the lift was out of order and I had to climb the stairs.

I rushed to only to find I had no hot water so jumped out quick and got dressed. At least it put me ahead of schedule until I couldn't . Finally remembered my spare set and avoided my nosy neighbor so thought my luck was changing until I found my car had a and there were no taxis available.

As the restaurant was only a kilometer away I found my trusty and set off. I had forgotten that it was harvest season and I had to pass fields with and with my allergies I had to keep stopping to .

By the time I arrived I had runny eyes and a red nose but luckily my date had found us a with dim lighting although that worked in his favor too as it was a bit of a to find out he looked nothing like his picture at all and not in a good way.

Still I've always believed that it was personality that matters most and I thought we had a lot in common from his profile and correspondence until I realized that that was also a .

Tempted to leave I remembered I had very little food at home so decided to get a first. The service was horrendous so I had to wait for ages for my food and with the way the evening was going I should probably have expected the , the burnt steak and the cold pudding.

The evening finally came to an end and I managed to find some in my handbag while searching for my purse. Heaving a sigh of relief that this awful night was over I should have been prepared for the fact that it was .

I arrived home cold and miserable and tramped up the stairs. My place looked like a bomb had hit it and I actually realised I would rather have stayed at home and spent the evening . The place was freezing and with its current problems I decided to call it a night. After switching the electric blanket on, I got into some warm winter pajamas, made a hot coffee and jumped into a and thanked heaven the day was over.

Your Options

[shake a tower] [lack of pies] [roaring with pain] [belly jeans] [mean as custard] [bat flattery] [well-boiled icicle] [bot head] [chewing the doors] [sad ballad] [tecking the chime] [mare squeal] [dicky state] [pleating and humming] [nosy little cook] [flock of bats] [blushing crow] [know my blows] [hails of bay] [kind my fees]

Click or drag the options above to the spaces in the text.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer:

Spoonerisms are defined by the Oxford English dictionary as "an accidental transposition of the initial sounds, or other parts, of two or more words". They acquired this name after Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930) who was fellow, dean and warden of New College in Oxford.

He was not the first to use this device however, there is a written example from the 16th century and rumours of an 18th century Polish count named Marowski who had the same impediment.

Interestingly there is very little actual evidence that Spooner ever made all the verbal slips that are attributed to him. British linguist, R.H. Robbins, made a study of the phenomenon and there were only two examples he could confidently state came from Spooner.

One was "So you will be abily easle to chase the train of thought" instead of 'easily able' and the other was where he misquoted Tennyson and said "Come into the garden, Maud, For the black gnat bite has flown.' Instead of "For the black bat, night, has flown."

It is believed many of the others were created by his students and colleagues over the years including one of the most well-known where he was giving a toast to Queen Victoria and purportedly said "Three cheers for our queer old dean!"

Spooner himself only acknowledges one slip when he misnamed a hymn calling it "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take" and his daughter claims she never heard him make any.

Although technically defined as accidental they are also often used as a deliberate play on words in comedy.

The following list are those used in this quiz in the order they appeared.

Tecking the chime - checking the time
Mean as custard - keen as mustard.
Flock of bats - block of flats.
Shake a tower - take a shower.
Kind my fees - Find my keys
Bat flattery - flat battery.
Well-boiled icicle - well-oiled bicycle.
Hails of bay - bales of hay.
Know my blows - blow my nose.
Nosy little cook - cosy little nook.
Blushing crow - crushing blow.
Lack of pies - pack of lies.
Mare squeal - square meal.
Sad ballad - bad salad.
Dicky state - sticky date.
Belly jeans - jelly beans.
Roaring with pain - pouring with rain.
Chewing the doors - doing the chores.
Pleating and humming - heating and plumbing.
Bot Head - hot bed.

Source: Author Midget40

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