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anacronym

Language; General language

An acronym that most people don't realize is an acronym.

anacrusis

Language; General language

When one or many unstressed syllables start a line of verse before the actual meter begins.

anagram

Language; General language

A reordering of the letters of a word or phrase that results in a new word or phrase being formed.

anagrammatism

Language; General language

The forming of anagrams, i.e. words created by reordering another word's letters.

anagram pair

Language; General language

If a group of letters can only be formed into two words, the two words are called an anagram pair.

analogical change

Language; General language

The changing of an irregular grammatical form to make it conform to a more common pattern, e.g. if every English speaker were to start to use the word mouses as the plural of mouse instead of the ...

analogy

Language; General language

A word-formation process in which words are coined by imitating a change that was applied to other words.

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