Speech error Vietnam War. Speech error A speech error, commonly referred to as a slip of the tongue (Latin: lapsus linguae, or occasionally self-demonstratingly, lipsus languae) or misspeaking, is a deviation (conscious or unconscious) from the apparently intended form of an utterance. They can be subdivided into spontaneously and inadvertently produced speech errors and intentionally produced word-plays or puns. Another distinction can be drawn between production and comprehension errors. Errors in speech production and perception are also called performance errors. Some examples of speech error include sound exchange or sound anticipation errors. In sound exchange errors the order of two individual morphemes
Acantha mythological figures, provides no reference for the story. In the updated 1839 edition three references are given. These are to Pliny the Elder's "Natural History", Pedanius Dioscorides' "De Materia Medica" and Hesychius of Alexandria's "Lexicon". On inspection, however, Pliny makes absolutely no reference to Acantha, Dioscorides refers only to the plant and Hesychius simply explains what the word means. A number of latter compilers have similarly not cited classical references when retelling the myth. The myth does not appear in the "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae", a volume which includes every Latin word, including proper names. The "Thesaurus Linguae Graecae", a similarly