William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (died 1930)

William Archibald Spooner

Oxford don (1844–1930)

William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often…