the national puzzlers' league probably has a database of spoonerisms. here is one page on them https://enigma.puzzlers.org/guide/common#spooner On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 6:36 PM James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Do there exist dictionaries of spoonerisms analogous to rhyming dictionaries?
One could imagine a program that would go through a phonetic dictionary of English words, looking at each pair of words and trying to spoonerize them; usually this would fail, but if n is the number of words in the dictionary, there would be n-choose-2 pairs to try, so I'm guessing there'd be lots of hits.
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