Let's rewind a bit. Someone recently (accidentally, of course) switched the sounds in the name of the famous Nigerian author, Wole Soyinka, turning it into "Sole Woyinka." This might seem like a ...

Dear Richard Lederer: Have you ever done a column on spoonerisms? My husband and I find them amusing and entertaining, yet we are a little amazed that so many of our friends haven’t heard of Rev.

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

Pity the scholar, opening a lecture on Tacitus or William of Wykeham and looking out on a gaggle of leering undergraduates hoping he will twist a phrase or two to rude or amusing effect. Dr William ...

A spoonerism is the interchange of the initial sounds of two words, for example, "he is a boiled sprat". A spoonerism is the interchange of the initial sounds of two ...