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Transade

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A word or phrase is broken up into two or more shorter parts. Each shorter part is transposed (separately) to make a word. (Thus the name: transposal charade.) Examples: Tenerife, teen, fire; or solution, soul, into; or Washington, saw, nothing. At the editor’s discretion, the shorter parts may be enumerated.

The transade was invented Dirty Jack and introduced in October 1992.

See also

Foo

Bar

Baz