The Origin of the Spoonerism (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Paul Rainer
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 17" x 12" (435mm x 295mm)
Date: 1967
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: RainerSpoonerism

This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Paul Rainer.

Who said? "Sir, you have deliberately tasted two whole worms." The Rev. William Archibald Spooner, Warden of New College, Oxford (founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham).

Although Spooner had a distinguished career at New College he is only really remembered today because of his unfortunate habit of transposing the first letters or syllables of two or more words such as "He has just received a blushing crow" instead of "a crushing blow."

From Look and Learn #276 29 April 1967.

• Artist Biography
  Paul Rainer (Flourished 1950s and 1960s)
  Paul Rainer, an illustrator about whom not much is known. We know he was active in the 1950s in Everybody's Magazine, and in the 1960s contributed to both Bible Story and Look and Learn.
  
  He illustrated a couple of series in Look and Learn including 'People and Plants' in 1966, the excellent 'Who Said...?' in 1967 and various others in 1968-69. Before that, he was one of the regular illustrators for Bible Story, illustrating 'The Story of the Life of Jesus' (1964).