3. God knows how he happened on that name. The Rev. William Archibald Spooner was the Warden of New College, Oxford, at the time. He couldn't engineer his way out of a paper bag but he did father "spoonerisms" — the unintentional interchange of sounds in two or more words. For example: "The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer" (instead of "rate of wages") or "belly jeans" (instead of "jelly beans").