Is the bean dizzy?
- POSTED ON: 1 Feb, 2020
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- POSTED BY: Madhumitha Srinivasan
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How could a bean be dizzy? This sentence would make sense if you view it as a spoonerism.
A spoonerism is an error in a speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes (the smallest meaningful unit in a word) are interchanged between two words in a phrase. By that definition, the title of the article actually means to ask, “Is the dean busy?”
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Browse through the slides to learn more about spoonerism and test your language skills trying to decipher a few…