Speech error 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 is reversed,
Classical Latin and England. In 1715 Laurence Echard's "Classical Geographical Dictionary" was published. In 1736 Robert Ainsworth's "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Compendarius" turned English words and expressions into "proper and classical Latin." In 1768 David Ruhnken ("Critical History of the Greek Orators") recast the mold of the view of the classical by applying the word canon to the "pinakes" of orators, after the Biblical canon or list of authentic books of the Bible. Ruhnken had a kind of secular catechism in mind. In 1870 Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel in "Geschichte der Römischen Literatur" ("A History of Roman Literature") innovated the definitive philological classification of