A spoonerism is made by switching the first sounds in a pair of words. Here are some examples:
| Word/Phrase: | What it Sounds Like as a Spoonerism: |
| butterfly | flutter by |
| funny bone | bunny phone |
| bye all | eye ball |
| leading edge | eating ledge |
| take a shower | shake a tower |
| lunatic | tuna lick |
| rattle your cage | cattle your rage |
| a headless bird | a bedless herd |
| poor monkey | more punky |
| date line | late dine |
| those socks have holes | those hawks have souls |
| lying dog | dieing log |
| a shot in the dark | a dot in the shark |
| curling my hair | hurling my care |
| hot wheels | what heels |
| high water | why hotter |
| jelly beans | belly jeans |
| falls through the cracks | crawls through the facts |
| in the sky | skin the eye |
| so high | hole sigh |
| enterprise | printer eyes |
| blue shade | shoe blade |
| where's the bird | bear's the word |
