Spoonerisms are verbal errors that involve the transposition of initial sounds or letters in words. These errors were named after Spooner, who is famously believed to have said things like:
* "You have hissed all my mystery lectures." (Instead of "You have missed all my history lectures.")
* "Is the bean dizzy?" (Instead of "Is the dean busy?")
While Spooner himself wrote some academic works, his primary legacy is not as an author, but as a linguistic figure associated with these humorous speech errors.