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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Metathesis

A figure of speech in which letters or syllables are transposed, as “You occupew my pie [py],” instead of “You occupy my pew;” daggle-trail for “draggle-tail,” etc.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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