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spoon•er•ism



Pronunciation: (spOO'nu-riz"um), [key]
—n.
the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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