MANTA RAY JACK AND THE CREW OF THE SPOONER

Here is a spoonerist tale from my book Floors of Enduring Beauty (Mansfield Press, 2007).
The optional non-spoonerist telling can be read on the lower half of the pages.

My thanks once again to publisher Denis De Klerck,
and to editor and typesetter Stuart Ross (who acquired this text long before a first draft was complete.)

A note from the 2007 publication: "All spoonerisms are originals by the author (though he may not, in some cases, have been the first discoverer of them) apart from four: thanks to Dale Zentner for 'the souls in my hawks,' Dr. David Naylor for 'a word botcher,' William Davison for 'an old guy' and the Reverend William Archibald Spooner himself for his 'shoving leopard.'"

This version, by the way, contains some slight revisions.

To read about spoonerist transpositional and see further obsesive examples,
kindly visit my Beard Weaver's Weird Beavers blog.

Steve Venright
Toronto, 2014

Floors of Enduring Beauty at Mansfield Press

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