The Long and Short of It

Single-Word | Six-Word | Seven-Word | Eight-Word | Eleven-Word

Single-Word Spoonerisms

  • adorable — a borer (dull); aerofoil — Pharaoh oil; afterburner — BAFTA earner; Alysha — a Sheila; befriending — free bending; blogcasting — cog blasting; blogosphere — flog us beer; boredom — door bum; broadband — bored brand; bulkhead — hulk bed; California — phallic, hornier; Carlisle — lark isle; chlorine — raw, clean; Cornwall — worn call; Delaware — well, a dare!; Denmark — men (dark); Dogbert — bog dirt; finite — nigh fight; firmware — worm fare; foresee — saw fee; fornicate — corny fate; Gibraltar — bridge alter; Goldeneye — olden guy; greengrocers — groangreasers; handbags — banned hags; handcuffs — canned 'huffs'; headbands — bed hands; Hollywood — wallyhood; Huntingdonshire — shunting done here; Ipswich — whips itch; journalist — learn a 'gist'; landmark — manned lark; Liechtenstein — sticked-in-line; lifeboat — by float; lockjaw — jock law; longboard — bong lord; Maidstone — staid moan; numerology — rumournology; Penzance — zen pants; phony — no fee; Reagan — gay run; reassuring — sheer roaring; recant — key rant; refrain — free reign; ruination — new erasion; screwdriver — drew skiver; sensitive — tenser sieve; serotonin — terror sown in; settlement — metal sent; Shawoddywoddy — were shoddy-shoddy (w/r); Shrewsbury — brews sherry; sledgehammer — hedge slammer; Starman — mars tan; Superwoman — woo (per summon); teenager — neat-ager; together — go tether; unrepeatable — pun (re-eatable); vehement — 'me' event; violence — lie events; Wikipedia — picky-weedier; willpower — pill wower; Wisconsin — kiss once in
 

Six-Word Spoonerisms

  • another call waiting on the line — another Kyle waiting on the lawn
  • a rule, enforced by the commission — a cruel, enforced by the omission
  • attaching a bolt to the door — attaching a dolt to the bore
  • blustery winds with scattered rain showers — lustery winds with scattered brain showers
  • bring you knees to your chest — bring your cheese to your nest
  • deeply moored by tough, National barriers — deeply bored by tough, National marriers
  • doesn't take away from the fact — doesn't fake away from the tact
  • give a badge to your buddy — give a budge to your baddie
  • having water and needing to breed — having brought her and needing to weed
  • hitting the sand before the ball — sitting the band before the hall
  • I think it's a good store — I stink: it's a good thaw!
  • last day of the old year — last yay of the old dear
  • making a call with your phone — faking a call with your moan
  • more information and terms of use — your information and terms of moose
  • moving those bits into the garage — moving those gits into the barrage
  • my cat needs a good home — my hat needs a good comb
  • my mentality causes me to spend — spy mentality causes me to mend
  • my wife and I need it — my knife and I weed it
  • quality gear, only for the best — quality beer, only for the guest
  • saying hello in the chat room — saying 'cello' in the hat room
  • simply put, I don't like it — pimply soot, I don't like it
  • sky blue pink with purple spots — spy blue pink with purple Scots
  • the house is eating up money — the mouse is eating up honey
  • the meek shall inherit the earth — the eek shall inherit the mirth
  • the plane took a drastic dive — the drain took a plastic dive
  • they were scary and we worried — they were wary and we scurried
  • this will be the telling year — this will be the yelling tear
  • warm your hands by the fire — form your hands by the wire
  • wipe that smirk off your face — swipe that murk off your face
  • you'd only be in the way — you'd only wee in the bay
 

Seven-Word Spoonerisms

  • above and beyond the call of duty — a dove and beyond the call of beauty
  • a lot more for you to borrow — allot bore for you tomorrow
  • clean your room then take a break — clean your broom then take a rake
  • glad to have you back with me — mad to have you back, with glee!
  • hanging around in a cave with bats — banging aound in a cave with hats
  • in bed, dreaming of a better life — in dread, beaming of a better life
  • now here comes the last of it — cow here numbs the last of it
  • now I lay me down to sleep — now I slay me down to leap
  • pulling a rabbit out of a hat — pulling a habit out of a rat
  • shopping in the back of my mind — bopping in the shack of my mind
  • show an understanding of a small niche — know an understanding of a small 'sheesh'
  • stay within the confines of the law — lay within the confines of the store
  • there we will have to leave it — lair: we will have to thieve it
 

Eight-Word Spoonerisms

  • keep on seeing a light in the sky — leap, on seeing a kite in the sky
  • live by the sword…die by the sword — live, sigh the bored…die, sigh the bored
  • the thing startled us, making a crashing noise — the King startled us, making a thrashing noise
 

Eleven-Word Spoonerisms

  • I hear what you're saying but don't feel the same way — I fear what you're saying but don't heal the same way