{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY July 8, 2019 -----------------metathesis

WORD OF THE DAY July 8, 2019

metathesis   noun | muh-TATH-uh-sis   Definition   : a change of place or condition: such as   a : transposition of two phonemes in a word   b : a chemical reaction in which different kinds of molecules exchange parts to form other kinds of molecules   Scroll down for more about metathesis     TRENDING NOW: gerrymander gerrymandering concentration camp animus SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   'Vacation': A History   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 7/5/19   7 Ways to Get Away From It All   Clocking a Newer Sense of 'Clock'       WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Up in the Sky: A Quiz   It's a bird? It's a plane? No, I'm really asking. What is it?     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try! TAKE ME THERE       Did You Know?   One familiar example of metathesis is the English word thrill, which was thyrlian in Old English and thirlen in Middle English. By the late 16th century, native English speakers had switched the placement of the r to form thrill. Another example is the alteration of curd into crud (the earliest sense of which was, unsurprisingly, curd). It probably won't surprise you to learn that the origin of metathesis lies in the idea of transposition—the word was borrowed into English in the mid-16th century and derives via Late Latin from the Greek verb metatithenai, meaning "to transpose."     Examples of METATHESIS   The study examined metathesis in the speech of children between the ages of three and six.   "'Aks' and 'ask' both derive from one verb in Old English that featured the same transposition of sounds and gave rise to two equally-valid pronunciations: 'ascian' and 'acsian.' In linguistic terminology, this transposition, or swapping of sounds, is called metathesis….'" — Jordan MacKenzie, The Independent Florida Alligator (University of Florida), 10 Feb. 2016   Name That Synonym   Unscramble the letters to create a synonym of metathesis as used in its basic sense of "a change of place": LEERASRV.   VIEW THE ANSWER             MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES         TRENDING NOW         WORDS AT PLAY     FOLLOW US:

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