Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or containing metathesis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to metathesis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics exhibiting
metathesis
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Examples
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As usual, Language Log got to this topic first and used much more impressive vocabulary e.g., "metathetic".
Have you ever shruck? josh 2009
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As usual, Language Log got to this topic first and used much more impressive vocabulary e.g., "metathetic".
Archive 2009-01-01 josh 2009
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He relied too much on metathetic parlour tricks and inconsistent sound changes for me to respect his academic judgment.
The Tower of Babel 2007
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(Bush made the added metathetic innovation of moving the / r / into the initial consonant cluster.)
Language Log 2009
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