Have you ever been distracted while you were speaking and accidentally switched the sounds of two words? For example,a person might mean to say "I'm going to get a turkey sandwich," and instead say "I'm going to get a surkey tandwich." This type of expressive inversion is called a __________.
A) phonemic reversal
B) syntactic switch
C) spoonerism
D) morphism

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This type of expressive inversion is called a spoonerism, after Reverend William Archibald Spooner who was known to frequently make such errors.

Have You Ever Been Distracted While You Were Speaking and Accidentally