Word Substitution

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I’m having a word-finding problem that doesn’t seem to be aphasia and doesn’t seem related to Freud’s ideas about forgetting. I think one word and type a different complete word, not a typo.

I’ve started making a list of such instances, trying to make sense of it and learn to cope with it:

· logical becomes local

· front becomes from

· attended becomes attending

· when becomes win

· since becomes when

· woke becomes work

· booths become books

· made becomes meant

· wide becomes wild

Have you ever heard of such a problem? Is there a name for it?

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