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,
John Davies (Mallwyd) Welsh translation of the Bible and the 1621 edition of the Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer. He published a Welsh grammar in Latin in 1621, "Antiquae linguae Britannicae ...", and a Welsh–Latin Latin–Welsh dictionary in 1632, "Antiquae linguae Britannicae ... et linguae Latinae dictionarium duplex". In 1632 he also published "Llyfr y resolusion", a masterly translation and Protestant adaptation of " The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution" (1582) by English Roman Catholic Robert Parsons. He died, possibly while at Harlech, on 15 May 1644, and was buried at Mallwyd church, where a memorial