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		jrsala on Feb 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Verlan: French slang that inverses words This phenomenon is called a "Jespersen's cycle" according to Wiktionary. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cycle_de_Jespersen Also according to Wiktionary, "guère" is unrelated to "guerre" (war) and "ne ... guère" is therefore not the product of a Jespersen's cycle. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gu%C3%A8re

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