I had heard of a term once for splitting two words by inserting another word into the "break" -- like saying:

No - flipping - way?!

or too - flipping - bad!

What is the term for this technique?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

tmesis is the Grammatical and Rhetorical term. unfreakingbelievable.

toobloodyright

I think I put my "thanks" in the wrong place, so...

Thanks.

Regards,
Chuck

I was wondering.

Thanks

Is there such a thing as "diacope" that means the same thing? I've heard it called that, as well as tmesis. It's quite common in the military milieu in which I work: two G-rated syllables never seem to suffice.

if you look at Silva Rhetoricae, it gives diacope as a related figure for tmesis; but the descriptions seem far apart. I guess they both qualify under the general category Amplification.

Diacope has the same sense of "putting something in the middle of something else," but it's different. Thanks - tmesis is what I hear at work all the time.

The express path to diacope.

I knew syncope was a fainting spell due to deficient supply of blood to the brain. I find it also has a meaning opposite to that of Tmesis - as in Worcester.