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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.