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A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose. This can be achieved with intentional malapropism (e.g. replacing erection for election ), enallage (giving a sentence the wrong form, eg. "we was robbed!"), or simply replacing a letter with another letter (for example, in English, k ...
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Intentional misspelling may refer to: Sensational spelling; Satiric misspelling This page was last edited on 8 ...
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boy and buoy; braid and brayed; braise/braize, brays and braze; brake and break; breach and breech; bread and bred; brewed and brood; brews and bruise; bridal and bridle; burro and burrow; bus and buss; bused and bust; but and butt; buy, by and bye; cache and cash; callous and callus; can't and cant; cannon and canon; canter and cantor; carat ...
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can back up [verb]) (can be) (can black out [verb]) (can breathe [verb]) (can check out [verb]) (can play back [verb]) (can set up [verb]) (can try out [verb])
An example in Bleak House is the following dialogue spoken by Jo, the miserable boy who sweeps a path across a street: ...there wos other genlmen come down Tom-all-Alone's a-prayin, but they all mostly sed as the t'other wuns prayed wrong, and all mostly sounded as to be a-talking to theirselves, or a-passing blame on the t'others, and not a ...