Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Shiftingness

👉 In linguistics and communication studies, "shiftingness" refers to a phenomenon where words or phrases are shifted from one position to another in a sentence. This can be due to various factors such as grammatical structure, phonetic changes, or word order variations. For instance, if someone says the sentence "I want to go to the store," and then shifts it to "I want to go to the store with my dog" (thus changing the position of the "go") or "

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