metagrammatism

English

Noun

metagrammatism (uncountable)

1. anagrammatism
   • 1980, Leonard Robert Palmer, The Greek language, page 96:

     This distribution has puzzled grammarians, but the Iliadic examples are all from Nestor's account of the Elean war. The aberrant spelling must date from after the alleged metagrammatism.

References

• “metagrammatism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.