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William Archibald Spooner

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  • Editorial: Pity William Archibald Spooner whose gift to the world we were reminded of last Monday by Jim Naughtie's slip

    In praise of … a well-placed signature | Editorial 2011

  • IN THE early 20th century, the highly eccentric Dean and Warden of New College, Oxford, William Archibald Spooner, famously acquired something of a reputation for making comical slips of the tongue and for coining unintentionally amusing or unfortunate phrases.

    Reviews of Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe, by William Rosen 2007

  • IN THE early 20th century, the highly eccentric Dean and Warden of New College, Oxford, William Archibald Spooner, famously acquired something of a reputation for making comical slips of the tongue and for coining unintentionally amusing or unfortunate phrases.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

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