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Metathesis may also involve interchanging non-contiguous sounds, known as nonadjacent metathesis, long-distance metathesis, [1] or hyperthesis, [3] as shown in these examples of metathesis sound change from Latin to Spanish: Latin parabola > Spanish palabra "word" Latin miraculum > Spanish milagro "miracle" Latin periculum > Spanish peligro ...
Metathesis (linguistics), alteration of the order of phonemes within a word Quantitative metathesis , exchange of long and short roles, without changing order of vowel sounds Chemical change in which a pair of molecules exchange electronic patterns of bonding
A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".
Dutch shares several examples with English, but also has some of its own. Many examples were created by reanalysing an initial n-as part of a preceding article or case ending. adder: As in English. arreslee (horse-drawn sleigh): From early modern Dutch een (n)arreslede, from nar "fool, jester" + slede "sleigh". avegaar "auger": As in English.
Epenthesis is sometimes used for humorous or childlike effect. For example, the cartoon character Yogi Bear says "pic-a-nic basket" for picnic basket. Another example is found in the chants of England football fans in which England is usually rendered as [ˈɪŋɡələnd] or the pronunciation of athlete as "ath-e-lete".
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.
An example is the elision of word-final /t/ in English if it is preceded and followed by a consonant: "first light" is often pronounced "firs' light" (/fɜrs laɪt/). [2] Many other terms are used to refer to specific cases where sounds are omitted.
In Old English, two forms of harmonic vowel breaking occurred: breaking and retraction and back mutation.. In prehistoric Old English, breaking and retraction changed stressed short and long front vowels i, e, æ to short and long diphthongs spelled io, eo, ea when followed by h or by r, l + another consonant (short vowels only), and sometimes w (only for certain short vowels): [3]