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Metaplasmus

Description

Metaplasmus is the deliberate misspelling of a word.

Elizabeth can be spelled as Liz, Eliza, Lizzie, Beth, Bet, etc.

Oh frigging heck!

I'm feeling hippy. I feel like wild six.

Words can misspelled because the writer has literacy problem. They may also be deliberately misspelled for a reason, such as:

Creating a diminutive of a person's forename.
Euphemism, where forbidden words are hidden in misspelling.
Puns, where humor is created through the double-meaning of the original word and the misspelled word.

These are the four ways to misspell: addition, omission, substitution and rearrangement.

Classification: Distortion