1844 Reverend William Archibald Spooner – Anglican clergyman and Warden of New College, Oxford who was the originator of “spoonerisms”. As a result of nervousness, he sometimes transposed the initial letters or syllables of a word, so “a half-formed wish” would become a “half-warmed fish”


I find myself doing that out of fun. Then it sort of becomes a habit to see how I can switch things around to make them silly.