> No need for reticence here.

s'me, Father, guilcup as charged: subtle as a housebrick! Sorry for any offence caused anyone, but it did seem unfair on a legitimate new poster...

'Git of wod' got me thinking about another suggestion, timr: howsabout ignoring connections like 'the' in the melting pot? Spoonerism only seems to work on certain principle parts of speech, doesn't it? ~ I expect the grammmarians like Fong, tsuwm, Bingley and others can help pin the butterfly more accurately.