n. 首音调换法〔如将 well-oiled bicycle 俏皮地改成 well-boiled icicle 之类；有时并非故意而将首音误置〕。
transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
A spoonerism is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis). It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844?1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency.
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