Saturday, July 17, 2010

A way with words (part 2)

I was wondering if you blog readers could help me out! I was trying to find out the term we use when we change a word to fit a certain phrase or context. For example, I was reading a blog yesterday (unfortunately, I can´t remember the name) and it was written "shift happens" (which totally made sense in the text). How do we call that?

3 comments:

  1. would it be a pun? Like the Write Path?

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  3. Is it? Great to know, I always see that kind of thing in English and I never knew how to call it. I always referred to it as "playing with the words". Thanks for your comment dear.

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