lysdexia
English edit
Etymology edit
Humorous formation from dyslexia by metathesis, as if due to dyslexia.
Noun edit
lysdexia (uncountable)
- (humorous) Dyslexia; proneness to metathesis in reading, writing, or speech due to (real or imagined) dyslexia.
Quotations edit
- 1990, Sharon Arthur Moore et al., Dyslexia, what's lysdexia? [title] in Reading Teacher 43
- 1995, Jerrold S Maxmen, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment [1]
- More complex problems such as dyslexia (or as one child once said, lysdexia) may merit a variety of special interventions.
- 2003, Willow Polson, The Veil's Edge [2]
- Priase to Hodwy, Dog of Lysdexia.
- 2005, Stefan Koski, Miscellaneous Philosophy [3]
- “My apologies. My lysdexia must be kicking in again. What I meant to say was, ‘Who beath thou?’”