Primary question: A common speaking mistake is to exchange syllables of words, saying "It's trace rhyme!" instead of saying "It's race time!", or pronouncing "kickin' chackatory" instead of "chicken cacciatore." Is there an existing name in poetry, linguistics, or English studies for switching syllables of (quasi-)consecutive words? I am not especially interested in the case when switching syllables results in interpretable homonyms or portmanteaus, like in the first example.
Secondary question: if not, what would you call it?
Tertiary question: is there somewhere a (playful?) taxonomy of fruitful or unfruitful lingual aberrations?
Best Answer
It's a Spoonerism.