What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: The Revd W. A. Spooner 1844-1930 Warden of New College Eponymous word transposer Lived here 1882-1903 "Kinquering congs their titles take" Recorded plaque organisation: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board.
W. A. Spooner was a British priest and classical scholar, known for accidentally transposing sounds in speech, a phenomenon named "spoonerism" after him; he served as Warden of New College, Oxford.
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