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An example of spoonerism on a protest placard in London, England: "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.
Historically, the word referred to digestion, as conceived by Aristotle who theorized that this was the result of the heat of the body acting upon the material, causing it to mature and ripen. [1] The term later came to refer to liquid broths, cocktails and potions which are similarly formed by heating or blending multiple ingredients.
The abbreviation e.g. stands for the Latin exempli gratiā "for example", and should be used when the example(s) given are just one or a few of many. The abbreviation i.e. stands for the Latin id est "that is", and is used to give the only example(s) or to otherwise qualify the statement just made.
The Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero coined the phrase ipse dixit, which translates from the Latin as "he said it himself".. Ipse dixit (Latin for "he said it himself") is an assertion without proof, or a dogmatic expression of opinion.
The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus . Its primary use is in automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
Anadiplosis – repeating the last word of one clause or phrase to begin the next. Analogy – the use of a similar or parallel case or example to reason or argue a point. Anaphora – a succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order.
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Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...