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a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence double decomposition: a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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(Gk "transposition"). The scribal exchange of two letters, or two characters, in a document. A common and natural error, requiring no particular explanation beyond the fact of its naturalness. See the Errors section.
Ãâó: www.umass.edu/wsp/philology/apparatus/glossary/kn....
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The transposition of two sounds in speech or spelling. This tendency often catches students of Middle English off guard, since they might encounter the spelling brid for bird or hwale for whale.
Ãâó: web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_M.html
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Error pattern in which two sounds in a word are reversed (basketball pronounced as baksetball)
Ãâó: www.apraxia-kids.org/site/pp.asp
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