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suechu | 08:06 Wed 18th Apr 2012 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Morning AB'ers - help please with 7d. Spooner's bushy vegetation increased form of security (4,5):

g-u- s-r-w

So presumably the answer is grub screw - can't work out why though? Is it a spoonerism for 'scrub grew' i.e. bushy vegetation?
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Grub screw
Spoonerism Shrub grew
Yes Exactly as you have described
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Tks Danny, still don't get the 'shrub grew' spoonerism though - there's no 'h'!
Its Scrub Grew
Sorry. my typo
Is this a true spoonerism? Where does the 'sh' in Shrub come from.
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Ah ok thanks Emeritus, I must start getting out more, this has been obsessing me the past hour.

Cheers, Sue x
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