Imagine repeating a slip of the tongue you have just made. The slip itself is experienced as involuntary; its imitation is voluntary. And yet the two isolated actions are much the same as far as an outside observer is concerned. Some famous slips attributed to the Reverend William Spooner illustrate the point:
Instead of “our dear old Queen,” he reported…
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