spoon foods
Some of the earliest and most influential studies of language processing examined the spontaneous slips of the tongue produced during speech. Spoonerisms are slips of the tongue named after the Reverend William A. Spooner who was head of New College Oxford between 1903 and 1924. Reverend Spooner was famous for producing a great many, often humorous, speech errors. Some of his more well-known mistakes are provided below.
1) What he intended: "You have missed all my history lectures."
What he said: "You have hissed all my mystery lectures."
2) What he intended: "Noble sons of toil"
What he said: "Noble tons of soil"
3) What he intended: "You have wasted the whole term."
What he said: "You have tasted the whole worm."
4) What he intended: "The dear old Queen"
What he said: "The queer old dean"
from Contemporary Linguistics, O'Grady, Dobrovolsky, Aronoff
1) What he intended: "You have missed all my history lectures."
What he said: "You have hissed all my mystery lectures."
2) What he intended: "Noble sons of toil"
What he said: "Noble tons of soil"
3) What he intended: "You have wasted the whole term."
What he said: "You have tasted the whole worm."
4) What he intended: "The dear old Queen"
What he said: "The queer old dean"
from Contemporary Linguistics, O'Grady, Dobrovolsky, Aronoff