One for the Road: Slip of the tongue

One for the Road: Slip of the tongue

Spoonerism: a slip of the tongue that transposes the initial sounds of two or more words (e.g., saying ‘chork pop’ instead of ‘pork chop’). They are sometimes used deliberately for humorous effect. More often, though, they happen accidentally, to infinitely greater humorous effect. Family lore tells of my auntie – young, eager and unworldly – nervously approaching the bar in Sally O’Brien’s, some ten-to-15 renovations ago. Another watered-down p…