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Sometimes for promotioin purpose we change part of a fixed term. Let's imagine there is a brand of beer would like to make use of the image of polar bears. They may call themselves: Polar Beer.
My question is: do we have a term to describe this substitution phenomenon?
Sometimes for promotioin purpose we change part of a fixed term. Let's imagine there is a brand of beer would like to make use of the image of polar bears. They may call themselves: Polar Beer.
My question is: do we have a term to describe this substitution phenomenon?
Hi ckcgordon,
I'm from the United States, and I would probably call Polar Beer a "play on words". Perhaps other native English speakers have an alternative suggestion?
But do you think "play on words" a bit too general? The phenomenon described here is very specific - it involves a substitution of part of a fixed term. In my mother tongue, we called this substitution "eating word" because the newly formed expression is obtained by "eating" part of the original term.
I was just wondering if there is a technical term to describe this interesting langauge phenomenon
Replace? Substitute? 
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