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  2. Transposed letter effect - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, the transposed letter effect is a test of how a word is processed when two letters within the word are switched. The phenomenon takes place when two letters in a word (typically called a base word) switch positions to create a new string of letters that form a new, non-word (typically called a transposed letter non-word or TL non ...

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same in either direction; Pangram: a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once; Tautogram: a phrase or sentence in which every word starts with the same letter; Caesar shift: moving all the letters in a word or sentence some fixed number of positions down the alphabet; Techniques ...

  4. Anagram - Wikipedia

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    An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. [1] For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into the phrase "nag a ram"; which is an Easter egg suggestion in Google after searching for the word "anagram". [2]

  5. Spoonerism - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Sunday ...

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    Here are the first two letters for each word: PL. CO. ST. BO. VI. CO. CO (SPANGRAM) NYT Strands Spangram Answer Today. Today's spangram answer on Sunday, February 23, 2025, is COLLECTIBLES.

  7. Metathesis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Some words have been standardized in the metathetized form: * mureh > murhe "sorrow" * pereh > perhe "family" * uroh > urho "hero" * valehellinen > valheellinen "untrue" Sporadic examples include the word vihreä "green", which derives from older viherä, and the vernacular change of the word juoheva "jovial" to jouheva (also a separate word ...

  8. Paraphasia - Wikipedia

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    A traditional approach requires treatment beginning at the level of breakdown – in the case of paraphasia, at the level of the phoneme. There are commercially available workbooks that provide various activities such as letter, word-picture, or word-word matching, and sentence completion, among other things.

  9. Word ladder - Wikipedia

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    Lewis Carroll's doublet in Vanity Fair, March 1897 changing the word "head" to "tail" in five steps, one letter at a time. Word ladder (also known as Doublets, [1] word-links, change-the-word puzzles, paragrams, laddergrams, [2] or word golf) is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the ...