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You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town drain.

— William Archibald Spooner Disputed

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Reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd ed. (1953), p. 511, but not in the 3rd ed. (1979), p. 517

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