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It was the first letter of the next word. See me Crick, and wipe that smirk off you face.

Remember zany Kenny Everett's punk character Cupid Stunt?

Michael - have you seen the script? Couldn't it have gone something like:

'After the news we'll be talking to Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary'?

Or the Hulture Secretary.

It could very easily have been a spoonerism, albeit a truncated one once he realised the import of the first half.

it was a spoonerism 'cos he took the 'c' from the word 'culture' which was about to follow his name. culture secretary.

Surely it was indeed a Spoonerism, merely incomplete. It seems relatively obvious that Naughtie would have gone on to say "Hulture Secretary", had he not noticed his error partway through...

I think he was heading in that direction, but realised what he was saying quickly enough to correct the second part. A semi-spooner, maybe.

My dear wife is a student of the late Professor Spooner. Whilst we enjoy a rich humour in private I would never, ever draw her attention to it in public.

This causes me to wonder how much of an accident Naughties' malapropism was. I have a nasty suspicion that the bourgeois literati do not like the idea of this government cutting back on their cultural pleasures as it means they then have to dig into their own heavily subsidised pockets to pay for the rubbish they choose to call culture whilst cheerfully taxing the lower paid on their choice of bad booze.

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It means that while Michael is open to humorous criticism of his mild and not so humorous pedantry, one should not actually use the Lingua Franca of Naughtie-Marr land to describe his feminine side...

Glad someone is finally pointing this out - so many ignorant people around these days trying to sound clever.

However, what Spooner did was to transpose the first letters of key (paired) words in the phrase, so to be a Spoonerism he would have had to call him not Jeremy Hunt, but "Heremy Junt".

And - he didn't do that. Certainly the letter "C" wouldn't enter into it.
You have to wonder if this was accidental - taking a swipe at a government minister (no chance of libel action) is a risk-free crowd-pleaser and some free fame and notoriety for a man who was basically a bit player prior to this incident.

It's fame in the 15 minute class though - I still have no interest in hearing anything he has to say after this.

Or it was, possibly, by being somewhat of a trend across a certain media organ's senior 'broadcasters', potentially something else entirely.

At least 'what a bunch of NaughtieMarrs' is now gathering currency as a collective term around and about, my sources tell me.

And I don't mind my kids using it either, though the explanation stage is, if useful in spreading the word, as it were, 'complex'.

I fear that some ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ staff regularly refer to Jeremy Hunt in the way that Naughtie and Marr both did on-air.

I suggest that by using the "spoonerism" off-air they find it hard to get out of the habit when on-air.

You may know Michael.

Following stanilic in 7 is the Naughtie/Marr misspeak

a) a spoonerism

b) a malapropism or

c) an eggcorn?

if you have the surname Hunt...you can expect all you get....

Sorry to be pedantic here, but this sentence

"You must return to London by the next town drain."

is plain wrong.

All trains to London travel in the 'UP' direction. Trains travel away from London in the 'DOWN' direction.

Jeremy's middle name is Isaac?

Apparently the Beeb vetoed one of Kenny Evereett's characters called Mary Hinge.