Monday, May 30, 2005

I just found the appropriate page in my psychology textbook after pages of 'cognitive gymnastics', on spoonerisms. I think I should call my psych text the 'manuel of cognitive gymnastics' or MCG. I suppose in freud's case, Male Chauvanist Goat would suffice.


"I remember your name perfectly but I just can't think of your face." - Oxford professor W. A. Spooner, 1844-1930, famous for his linguistic flip flops, or 'spoonerisms'. Spooner rebuked one pupil for "fighting a liar in the quadrangle" and another who "hissed my mystery lecture," adding, "You have tasted two worms."


Watch out Rachel.. perhaps he has decendents.

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