Have you ever been distracted while you were speaking and accidentally switched the sounds of two words? For example, a person might mean to say "I'm going to get a turkey sandwich," and instead say "I'm going to get a surkey tandwich."

This type of expressive inversion is called a __________.
a. phonemic reversal
b. syntactic switch
c. spoonerism
d. morphism

Answer: C

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