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spoonerism

i am an English teacher in Macedonia and i am preparing a worksheet about spoonerism for my students. i found a nice TV sketch about it. (
First I want to give the script to my students otherwise they won't understand it but i couldn't understand some parts of it myself. can you please help me in completing the missing parts? thanks from now.

TWO RONNIES – SPOONERISM SCRIPT
Good evening
Last year we visited the abode of Dr William Spooner, the Oxford don who a hundred years ago was confusing Lawrence Henry with his unique habit of transposing the first letters of two adjacent words, hereafter to be known as Spoonerisms.
It was he who proposed the toast to the *** old dean instead of the dear old queen.
It was also he who shocked the wife of the new bursar to the college what he meant to say was that coming into contact with so many high spirited young geniuses she would soon be mad as a hatter of course instead of which he said she would soon be a hat as a matter of course.
And so, in a special reconstruction we return once again to the peaceful confines of the Dr Spooner’s house near Oxford.
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Oh! Good morning William.
Good ray Dosie, I mean good day Rosie.
You were out there early dear where have you been?
Oh, I’ve rolling in the strose bushes, strolling in the rose bushes. They‘re all so smelly this morning.
You do adore your garden don’t you?
Oh indo I deed, I mean in dood I dee.
There is nothing makes me gappy other than the sport of hardening.
I fear there is so much xxxxxxxxxxx this time of year. I am neglecting it. It’s the rutting season for the causes you know.
Rutting season for the causes?
No, no, no. The cutting season for the roses. I declare you are getting as mad as bee.
Oh, is that what you intend to do today, my dear.
No, no, no, the roses must wait. The first thing I must do is to spray my flies against green beans.
Well I xxxxxxxxxxxxx I think I black my xxxxxxxxxxxx as well
That reminds me, I need some vegetables for dinner. Would you mind me a pharaoh.
Me a pharaoh? What’s she got to do with it?
I mean could you find me a marrow?
Oh I see a mere tip of the slung. I see. I fear I cannot. Because the garden gate was left unlocked all night. Someone has niptoed in and tipped my barrow in the mud.
You mean, tiptoed in and nipped your marrow in the bud.
I couldn’t have better put it myself.
I swear it was that villainest landlord to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Little Billy Humphries
Yes little Hilly Bumphries, exactly
He’s always been jealous of my xxxxxxxxxxx in the shower flow
My name is rose dear
No, no, no the shower flow the annual shower flow
Ah of course
Don’t you remember last year he tried to sabotage my peas. He covered them in xxxxxxxxxxx and left the sore little pots to die.
Sore little pots, ah poor little sods
Exactly
William are you sure it was he, perhaps it was the bees.
Bees cannot open the garden gate dear.
How did you know that the garden gate was open?
Because I saw next door’s dog xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on the door.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes they’re poor petal
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Yes prilly poty
The villain will pay for this I have a good mind to go over there and to put dirtilazers on his falies
Don’t upset yourself so I will help you with the gardening as soon as I have time but at the moment we have other duties, our students remember?
Good heavens, good havens. Tike of the loom I mean like of the toom … took of the lime is what I am trying to say. I hissed the mistery lecture.
I have a divinity class waiting. Let us hurry dear William and not keep them waiting any longer. Oh dearest! You are my William, the sweetiest sweet William that ever xxxxxxxxxxxxxx .
And you are my rose, the ricest nose I’ve ever picked.
Ah, but you are much too xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to be a pardoner.
And you are much too teaty to be a preacher.
  

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----------------------------------------------------Oh! Oh, I’ve been rolling in the strose bushes, strolling in the rose bushes. You do adore your garden don’t you?

  • ----------------------------------------------------Oh!
  • Oh, I’ve been rolling in the strose bushes, strolling in the rose bushes.
  • You do adore your garden don’t you?
  • I fear there is so much to do at this time of year.
  • I am neglecting it.
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Good eveningLast year we visited the abode of Dr William Spooner, the Oxford don who a hundred years ago was confusing Lawrence Henry with his unique habit of transposing the first letters of two adjacent words, hereafter to be known as Spoonerisms.It was he who proposed the toast to the *** old dean instead of the dear old queen.It was also he who
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Thanks, this helped a lot.

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