You could some of them easily by grouping all words with a common tail, such as: (b, c, k, m, n, r, s, sm, tr, qu)ite and then look for words with a common prefix pair (b, c, f, h, l, m, qu, r, s, t, w, br, fl, ...)ake to find unremarkable Spoonerisms like: "That a cake bite" vs. "That's a bake cite". Hilarie 5 Nov 2020 James Propp:
Do there exist dictionaries of spoonerisms analogous to rhyming dictionaries?
One could imagine a program that would go through a phonetic dictionary of English words, looking at each pair of words and trying to spoonerize them; usually this would fail, but if n is the number of words in the dictionary, there would be n-choose-2 pairs to try, so I'm guessing there'd be lots of hits.
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