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	William Archibald Spooner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Archibald Spooner (July 22, 1844–August 29, 1930) was educated at Oswestry School and New College, Oxford and became an Anglican priest and a scholar.
		Spooner was an albino, small, with a pink face, poor eyesight, and a head too large for his body.
		Spooner has become famous for his "spoonerisms", funny mis-statements that result from the transposition of initial consonants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Archibald_Spooner (318 words)

	William Spooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Spooner, the immigrant ancestor, was of Colchester, England, and apprenticed himself, March 27, 1637, to John Holmes, of New Plymouth, in America, gentleman.
		He was probably a brother of Thomas Spooner, of Salem, Massachusetts, thought to be son of John and Ann Spooner, who in 1616 were living at Leyden, Holland, where Ann, widow of John, was living in 1630; in 1637 Ann Spooner, doubtless mother of Thomas and William Spooner, was in Salem in 1637.
		William Spooner, as apprentice, was transferred to John Coombs, of Plymouth, July 1, 1637.
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	William Archibald Spooner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Archibald Spooner (July 22, 1844–August 29, 1930) was educated at (Click link for more info and facts about Oswestry School) Oswestry School and (Click link for more info and facts about New College, Oxford) New College, Oxford and became an (A Protestant who is a follower of Anglicanism) Anglican priest and a scholar.
		Spooner was an (A person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink) albino, small, with a pink face, poor eyesight, and a head too large for his body.
		Spooner has become famous for his " (Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words) spoonerisms", funny mis-statements that result from the transposition of initial consonants.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_archibald_spooner.htm (331 words)

	Dr. Spooner of Oxford - Spoonerisms - biography
		Spooner became a fellow of New College in 1867, a lecturer in 1868, a tutor in 1869, dean 1876-1889 (having been ordained as an Anglican priest in 1875) and Warden of New College from 1903, the year in which he completed his Doctor of Divinity degree.
		Spooner was an albino and as such, suffered from defective eyesight - he was also short in stature a head dispropotionately large in relation to his body.
		Spooner's tendency towards Spoonerism led many people to mistakenly presume that he was a sandwich or two short of a picnic.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /quotations/spooner_oxford.html (337 words)

	William Spooner, son of Experience Wing and Samuel Spooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Spooner's date of death is not certain at this time.
		William Spooner married Mercy Delano in Duxborough, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts on November 25, 1713.
		William Spooner was a farmer and a man of some importance in the town of Dartmouth.
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	Seeking the relations and ancestors of the Marrs & Hughes Family and the Rosales & Barrett Family - Person Page 10
		William Spooner was born in 1622 at Colchester, Essex Co., England.
		William Henry Marrs was born on 10 April 1842 at Shelby Co., Ohio.
		William Henry Marrs and Elizabeth Ann Grissom appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Pottawattomie Twp., Coffey Co., Kansas, enumerated 28 June 1870.
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	The Descendants of Thomas and Hannah (Annable) Bowerman - Person Page 14
		Fined five pounds to the use of the Colony." This may indicate that William and his wife were both Quakers, as this was the usual procedure with Quakers and others who failed to marry as the authorities reguired.
		There are two possibilities here: (1) that William Gifford had a second wife named Lydia as many have assumed; or (2) that the entries were entered into the existing book long after the births occured and that the clerk was careless in transcribing from an earlier record as to the mother of the child Temperance.
		William married second, Lydia Hatch, age 26, daughter of Joseph Hatch and Amy Allen, on 21 June 1711 at Falmouth, Barnstable Co., MA, New England, officiated by William Bassett, Justice of Peace.
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	Rev. William Archibald Spooner
		English is a fertile soil for spoonerisms, as author and lecturer Richard Lederer points out, because our language has more than three times as many words as any other -- 616,500 and growing at 450 a year.
		Born in 1844 in London, Spooner became an Anglican priest and a scholar.
		Thanks to Reverend Spooner's style-setting somersaults, our own little tips of the slung will not be looked upon as the embarrassing babblings of a nitwit, but rather the whimsical lapses of a nimble brain.
	www.lunaeterna.net /popcult/spooner.htm (694 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Who was Dr. Spooner of "spoonerism" fame? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A spoonerism, of course, is a transposition, a form of malapropism.
		Spooner attended New College, Oxford, as an undergraduate in 1862, and remained there for over 60 years in various capacities, ultimately as warden (equivalent to the U.S. president of a college).
		Julian Huxley called Spooner "a man who was the direct or indirect cause of a considerable addition to the world's stock of good-natured laughter." And that can't be all bad.
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	Descendants - pafg258.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		William G. was born on 19 Aug 1803 in Westfield, MA.
		Sarah SPOONER (Alden SPOONER, Rebecca PADDOCK, Alice ALDEN, David, John) was born on 27 Feb 1785 in of New London,, Connecticut, United States.
		Thomas SPOONER was born in Jul 1817 in of Petersburg, Petersburg, Virginia, United States.
	www.alden.org /aldengen/pafg258.htm (1718 words)

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		----------- Founding of Spooner Island Spooner Island was colonized in 304 CE by Lord William Spooner, one of several human nobles of the Empire of Quel'thalas.
		Lord Spooner had received his title in 303 CE (subsequent to his successful handling of the affair of the Goblet and Flame) but due to his minority status was awarded a rather small and unproductive estate in the Karanese Wetlands.
		A moderately sized green dragon was dispatched, a colony of lizardmen in the south was negotiated with, and several dinosaurs were captured and removed to the mainland for study.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~dkb1/dnd/sh/background.txt (1544 words)

	History Today: The educational archive of articles, news and study aids for teachers, students and enthusiasts - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The remarkable Spooner collection of early British watercolours is one of the finest of its kind and will be exhibited for the first time since 1968 at the Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, this winter.
		William Wycliffe Spooner (1882-1967) was the eldest son of Dr William Archibald Spooner, the celebrated Warden of New College, Oxford, forever associated with the linguistic lapses or ‘spoonerisms’ that bear his name.
		Spooner’s close friendship with Sir John Witt led him to bequeath the collection to the Courtauld Institute of Art on his death in 1967.
	www.historytoday.com /dt_article_subgrouplist.asp?gid=18900&aid=&tgid=&amid=18900&g18900=x&g12083=x&g406=x&g405=x&g21013=x&g19965=x&g19963=x (338 words)

	anltuqn~spoonerism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spooner himself was not so happy about this.
		Spooner was a true don of Oxford in the true, absent-minded-professor sense.
		At a dinner, Spooner attempted to clean up spilled salt by pouring wine on it (as any mom can tell you, the usual procedure is exactly opposite).
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	Spooner Or Later - 1994
		Spooner died in 1880, but so long and complicated had been his will that the executor of the estate was not able to transmit the actual bequest to the University until the fall of 1891.” The actual amount was $91,618 and at the time represented the largest single bequest ever given to a state university.
		Spooner placed no specifications or restrictions on what could be done with his money, so the debate over how the windfall should be spent began apace.
		Spooner was, in a sense, out of a job and sat vacant for two years.
	www.kuhistory.com /proto/story.asp?id=21 (2786 words)

	How Spooner got its name - Spooner, Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Following service with the Union forces in the Civil War, Captain John Spooner completed his military career by serving in the Dakota Territory until he was mustered out as a brevet major in June 1866.
		In the years that followed Spooner was admitted to the bar in Dane County and to the state supreme court and was appointed assistant attorney general.
		Not long after he resigned as railroad attorney, John C. Spooner defeated Governor Lucius Fairchild in their race for one of Wisconsin's seats in the U.S. Senate.
	www.cityofspooner.org /JohnCoit.htm (979 words)

	Spoonerisms > History of spoonerisms
		A number of genuine Spoonerisms – those which are believed to have been said by Reverend Spooner himself – can be found in the Spoonerism Examples section.
		English is a fertile soil for spoonerisms, as author and lecturer Richard Lederer points out, because our language has more than three times as many words as any other – 616,500 and growing at 450 a year.
		The Greeks had a word for this type of impediment long before Spooner was born: metathesis.
	www.fun-with-words.com /spoon_history.html (687 words)

	Spoonerisms - Generation Terrorists
		English is fertile soil for spoonerism, as author and lecturer Richard Lederer points out, because the language has more than three times as many words as any other - 616,500 and growing at 450 a year.
		She then asked me "Do you know what a spoonerism is?" I said no, so she explained that it's when you get words mixed up.
		One day, I was thinking in spoonerisms from the moment I woke up, and of course it had to be the day we served Buck's Fizz (orange juice and champagne).
	www.generationterrorists.com /quotes/spoonerisms.html (1682 words)

	William A. Spooner - Sharp HealthCare in San Diego - Sharp HealthCare
		William A. Spooner - Sharp HealthCare in San Diego - Sharp HealthCare
		A Sharp employee since 1981, Spooner led the effort that established Sharp’s information systems organization in the mid-1980s and was a key member of the leadership team that directed the strategic planning and implementation of integrated information systems for the Sharp enterprise.
		In addition to his experience in information technology leadership, Spooner has a financial background, having held financial management positions in three multi-facility health care systems prior to coming to Sharp as Sharp Cabrillo Hospital’s chief financial officer in 1981.
	www.sharp.com /generalinfo/index.cfm?id=1024 (381 words)

	Fuller Family Tree - aqwc03 - Generated by Ancestry Family Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Spooner, Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass., and His Descendents, Cincinnati Press, 1883.
		IsaAc, Dartmouth, son of 1st William, one of the original proprietors of that town, with his brothers John, Samuel, and William, by wife Alice, had Simpson, 1700; Edward, 1701; Mercy, 1707.
		WILLIAM came from Colchester, England, 1687, and died in Dartmouth, 1685.
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	Richard Brough Family Organization
		The eldest son of William Brough and Hannah Robinson was William Robinson, born 1800.
		The twin son of William and Catharine, and born in 1843, Edmund's marriage to Rachel Cantrell, daughter of a family of Bradnop farmers and flsmiths had the Brough clan up-in-arms.
		In January 1913, [William] gave the land of Ball Haye for a park, but owing to the war it was not ready to be opened for another decade-in 1924 in fact, seven years after his death in 1917.
	www.broughfamily.org /history/John_Burgh_Middle_Hulme_&_Descendants.html (6435 words)

	BBC - Cumbria - AskAway- Spoonerisms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rev William Archibald Spooner Rev Spooner was born on 22 July 1844 in London and became an Anglican priest and a scholar.
		William died on 29 August 1930, the father of two sons and five daughters and the friend and esteemed citizen of a city who loved him.
		My step-grandmother, Lilian Eagle, was a household servant of Rev. Spooner's, early in the last century, before she emigrated to Vancouver.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cumbria/features/askaway/people/spoonerism.shtml (403 words)

	Genealogy of Micheal Blackwell
		This question Puzzled also Thomas Spooner, the compiler of the Memorial of William Spooner, 1871, who corresponded with the Rev. Frederick Freeman, author of The History of Cape Cod, 1858.
		Edmund Freeman Senr., William Swift, Thomas Wing Senr., Thomas Dexter Senr., Michaell Blackwell and William Newland were constituted a committee to go forward in settling and confirming the bounds of the township with the Sachem of Mannomet..." (Freeman, op.
		To my son-in-law Nathaniell Spooner my lands In Freetown he to place gravestones for my son Nathaniell, my daughter Sarah, myself and my wife (if she be buried in ye same yard).To my three children, John Blackwell Mary Blackwell and Hannah Spooner [the residue]" (Bristol County Probate, 16:292).
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	Staffordshire Marriage Index of Broughs Nov 03 - pafg01 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Clark on 29 Dec 1807 in Stone, Staffordshire, England.
		William Braugh on 13 Feb 1837 in Tipton, Staffordshire, England.
		William Spooner on 13 Nov 1759 in Leek, Staffordshire, England.
	www.broughfamily.org /families/broughmarriages/pafg01.htm (216 words)

	ss is for sspooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most of the phrases attributed to Spooner are apocryphal; he may never have referred to Queen Victoria as "our queer old dean," or told anyone "I'll sew you to a sheet," or mentioned having a "half-warmed fish." But whether he really said these things or not, the good Reverend (like Mrs.
		Spoonerisms that aren't real words happen often in casual speech; anyone might happen to say "bunkey mizness" or "funa tish," and nobody would remember the phrase ten minutes later.
		There's a genre of riddles based on Spoonerisms; these riddles take the form "What's the difference between x and y?" and have answers of the form "One is a ____ ____, and the other is a ____ ____," where the two phrases are Spoonerisms of each other.
	www.kith.org /logos/words/lower2/sspooner.html (581 words)

	University of The North Pole - Uncyclopedia
		William 'Sexy Bill' Spooner has been the mess officer at UTNP for most of his life.
		Spooner, still throbbing, was hired on the spot, cleaned off, and wrapped in a dish towel.
		Spooner is still throbbing, and there is little hope that he will ever stop.
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	Notes for +William Spooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Whereas, William Spooner of Colchester, in the County of Essex by this Indenture
		It thus appears that William Spooner began life in America as an apprentice to a M
		Ann Spooner (doubtless from Leyden, Holland) was in Salem in 1637
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		William was raised in a Catholic orphanage after the death of his mother in 1887.
		Married about 1683, Martha Spooner, she was still living on 25 Mar 1707 per the Spooner Record; daughter of William Spooner and Hannah Pratt.
		William was a Quaker and his wife, Mary, was a "vagabond" "travelling" Quaker missionary.
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	Notes
		[NI246] William Spooner was born in Litchfield Co., CT where he lived as a farmer until about 1795, when he removed to Vermont and purchased land near Monkton.
		Spooner's life were given to his country as a soldier.
		"They (John Vernal & Sophia Spooner) often told me that my grandmother's father was William Spooner, and that he fought at Bunker Hill, and at Trenton, and was with Washington at Valley Forge; and these matters were well known to all my uncles and aunts, and my father especially told me about them".
	www.gbnf.com /genealog2/vernal/html/notes.HTM (1043 words)

	SpoonerGenerations Message Board
		If you are interested in Zoath (Zoar) Spooner and his presence in Screven County, Georgia - then the county library offers a searchable database of records.
		The search for the Spooner surname produces 23 different names, with three of them appearing to be variations upon Zoath (Zoar).
		His daughter, Amanda Spooner Fiveash, 1835-1934, lived and died in the same county.
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		Many of the Spooners in SW Georgia are farmers (cotton, peanuts, cattle), and there also are a number of professionals and business owners.
		My grandfather was William Spooner, my fathers name was Lloyd Ervin Spooner and my moms name is Bertha Asay, which by the way was born March 30, 1920 and died January 1, 1989.
		I married Joanne Spooner in 1950.Her father was Ralph F. SpoonerHer G. Father was Gustavous SpoonerHer was G. Ira L. Spooner and onback to the origin of this history toLeiden Holland in 1565.
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