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Please help!

A patron has asked for the term for the literary devise (and sometimes
just a slip of the tongue) for transposing the initial letters of
several words for humorous or sarcastic purposes.
Unfortunately, I can only think of not-wonderful examples on short
notice. To wit: "That librarian is a  hameless shussy." (Shameless
hussy) or, "that ditch would never marry a bitch-digger." If you know,
please clue me in. My dictionaries of literary terms are not up to this
task.
    PS: The patron introduced himself on the phone as my tax-preparer,
who calls on occasion with questions of such arcane knowlegde. But let
me tell you, as I only mailed my taxes off on Friday, I had a moment of
panic when I heard his voice!

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Sadie Longood, Librarian
Dallas (OR) High School
sadieh@viser.net
http://www.open.org/~dallashs/LibPage.html

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