transpositional
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
transposition + -al
Adjective[edit]
transpositional (not comparable)
- Pertaining to, or involving, transposition.
- 1803, Samuel Pegge, Anecdotes of the English Language; chiefly regarding the Local Dialect of London and its Environs:
- […] the most striking and most offensive error in pronunciation among the Londoners, I confess, lies in the transpositional use of the letters W, and V […] .
References[edit]
- “transpositional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.