| enallage (grammar) |
| Definition: Substituting one grammatical form (e.g., one part of speech, gender, or tense) for another form. Note: Sometimes a grammatically incorrect substitution is made to add emphasis. |
| Example: We was robbed! |
| Etymology: The word means "change" in Greek |
| Oxford English Dictionary: Its first citation in its grammatical sense is from 1583: "In the participle … is a manifest enallage or change of the gender." (Fulke Defence, 126) |