Sound change
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A sound change is a phonetic version of a letter change: one specified sound is changed in a word or phrase to make another. Example: tungsten, tonguester (a last-sound change).
FOURTH-SOUND CHANGE (7, 6)
Detroit announces this year’s line:
Three compact cars all named for TWOs!
(How chic, you say? Of course!) You’ll pine
For our new Peanut. (Cheap!) Or choose
Our two-door hatchback Pea. (It’s small
But loaded!) Need more ONE, you say?
We’ve built a car to suit the tall:
Test-drive a String Bean Coupe today!
=Trazom and Uncanny
The solution: ONE = legroom, TWO = legume.
In a terminal-sound change, the first and last sounds of a word are both changed. Example: four-star, doorstop. In general, any letter change variant has a sound change analogue.
Seealso the discussion of what constitutes a single sound, under phonetic flats.