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Thread #6894   Message #545281
Posted By: Jenny H
08-Sep-01 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: Spoonerisms in songs- Examples
Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples
I've never been quite sure whether the line in 'New York Girls' that goes

I'll never court another girl, I'll stick to rum and beer

is itself a bowdlerising spoonerism, a cheeky (oh, dear, sorry, I didn't mean that) temptation to spoonerise, or wholly innocent; I find the last the least likely theory

Jenny H
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ps the name 'mondegreen' is from The Bonny Earl of Moray not Lord Randall