Editing Spoonerism (section)

===Literature===
* Comedian F. Chase Taylor was the main actor of the 1930s radio program ''[[Stoopnagle and Budd]]'', in which his character, Colonel Stoopnagle, used spoonerisms. In 1945, he published a book, ''My Tale Is Twisted'', consisting of 44 "spoonerised" versions of well-known children's stories. Subtitled "Wart Pun: Aysop's Feebles" and "Tart Pooh: Tairy and Other Fales," these included such tales as "Beeping Sleauty" for "[[Sleeping Beauty]]". The book was republished in 2001 by Stone and Scott Publishers as ''Stoopnagle's Tale is Twisted''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stoneandscott.com/stoopnagle.asp|title=Stoopnagle's Tale is Twisted, by Ken James|access-date=3 November 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006042511/http://stoneandscott.com/stoopnagle.asp|archive-date=6 October 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* In 2005, [[HarperCollins]] published the late humorist [[Shel Silverstein]]'s ''[[Runny Babbit|Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook]],'' a book about a rabbit whose parents "Dummy and Mad" gave him spoonerized chores, such as having to "Dash the wishes" (for "wash the dishes").<ref name="Rogak">{{citation|title=A Boy Named Shel|last=Rogak|first=Lisa|publisher=[[Thomas Dunne Books]]|year=2007|isbn=978-0-312-35359-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/boynamedshellife00roga}}</ref>
* In his poem "Translation," [[Brian P. Cleary]] describes a boy named Alex who speaks in spoonerisms (like "shook a tower" instead of "took a shower"). Humorously, Cleary leaves the poem's final spoonerism to the reader when he says:
{{Poem quote|He once proclaimed, "Hey, '''belly jeans'''"
When he found a stash of jelly beans.
But when he says he '''pepped in stew'''
We'll tell him he should wipe his shoe.|source=Cleary, Brian P. ''Rainbow Soup: Adventures in Poetry''. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda, 2004.}}
* In ''D. H. Lawrence & Susan his Cow'' (1939), literary critic [[William York Tindall]] described behavioral psychologists as "occupied with nothing more spiritual than pulling habits out of rats".<ref>{{cite book|last=Tindall|first=William|date=1939|title=D. H. Lawrence & Susan his Cow|publisher=Columbia University Press|page=196|url=https://archive.org/details/dhlawrencesusanh0000unse/page/196/mode/1up?q=%22habits+out+of+rats%22|access-date=25 June 2023}}</ref> (This quip is commonly cited to [[Douglas Bush]], who used it in a lecture<ref>{{cite book|last=Bush|first=Douglas|date=1953|editor-last=Smithberger|editor-first=Andrew T.|title=Essays British and American|publisher=Houghton-Mifflin|page=465|chapter=Life, Letters, and Education|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/essaysbritishame0000unse/page/465/mode/1up?q=%22habits+out+of+rats%22|access-date=25 June 2023}} originally given as a lecture at Smith College (Nov 13 1941) and Wellesley College (Dec 2 1941), Massachusetts.</ref> two years later.)