Culture in Oxford

thumb|An example of spoonerism on a protest placard in London: "Buck Frexit" instead of "Fuck [[Brexit"]] A spoonerism is an occurrence of speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words of a phrase. These are named after the Oxford don and priest William Archibald Spooner, who reportedly commonly spoke in this way.

Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts, and the arts over their functions. According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson, create a parallel, or perform another didactic purpose, a sentiment expressed in the slogan "art for art's sake." Aestheticism flourished, in the 1870s and 1880s, gaining prominence and the support of notable writers, such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. Those seen as guided by the movement were known as Aesthet

first stage and age of the Upper Jurassic series / Late Jurassic epoch

debating society in Oxford, England

William Holman Hunt painting completed in 1853

spelling standard used by the Oxford University Press (OUP) for British publications, including its Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

type of boat

theatre at Oxford University

sculpture in Oxford, England, UK

pub in St Giles' Street, Oxford, England

two distinct communities of a university town

sheep breed

suburb in Oxford, England