On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 11:16, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Re PoPs: I didn't really mean to sound pedantic, it's just a curiosity of > mine. In the official title, "Operation" is not plural (nor has it ever > been as far as I can tell). Nevertheless, if everyone wants to call it > PoPs, the fact that it isn't strictly logical doesn't matter much. English > is like that.
Yup. IIRC from Linguistics 100 about 40 years ago, the term is metathesis. Same way some US dialects of English exchange the consonants in words like ask to sound like axe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_(linguistics) Tony H.
