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exchange
Type of speech error where two words or sounds are swapped.

Example:
Rev Spooner's supposed sound exchange errors (spoonerisms): Our queer old dean [for 'our dear old queen']
And also word exchanges: Work is the curse of the drinking class.

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Topics: Planning, Finding words, Building words