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W A ___, English clergyman renowned for transposition of the initial consonants or consonant clusters of a pair of words (7)

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I believe the answer is:

spooner

(Other definitions for spooner that I've seen before include "English clergyman and Oxford don (1844-1930), who had an "ism" named after him" , "One who gave his name to a transposition of sounds in speech" , "Revd W.A.- was famed for his errors in speech" , "Original transposer of initial letters in speech" , "Initial-transposing clergyman" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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