Constant spoonerizing

I spoonerize words all the time. All. The. Time. Good spoonerisms and bad. In my head. (I worderize spoons all the time. Tall. The Lime. Spoon Gooderisms band ad. Hin my ed.)

The earliest memory I have of doing this is in my teens, spoonerizing movie titles on posters at the nearby theatre. Lindler’s Schist. Gorrest Fump. Lue Tries. Hi Dard. Parkassic Jure. For a while I thought it was specifically related to movies. Now, it happens whenever I’m processing language, basically.  If you’re talking to me, I’m doing my best to listen, but I’m also rearranging syllables and phonemes. Oh, you went to the lake? Lent to the wake, tent woo l'dake.

I’ve only ever told a few people about it openly - not because it’s a big secret, but because it’s so… goofy and inconsequential. I know others have similar uncontrollable wordplay obsessions: constant punning, rhyming, anagrams, inverting words. Another minor thing I do is count the letters in a word and sort the consonants from the vowels, possibly as a pre-processing step for spoonerization. 

This is a contagious brain-bug. Start doing it around someone and watch them pick it up. (I’m so sorry, Cabel. Oh also, dart stewing it surround omeone and pock whem ditch it up.)

I was going to make this into my first proper Reddit post, but a quick search revealed an existing post describing the same exact thing: DAE constantly form spoonerisms (spoonerism)? Boy, do I. (Doy, ooh buy.) But since it’s an archived post, though, I’ve started my own anyway.