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Old English brid changes into Middle English bird is a case of
Answer: B
The change of Old English 'brid' into Middle English 'bird' is metathesis, in which two sounds in a word exchange places (here r and i). Other familiar cases are Old English 'waps' to 'wasp' and 'acsian' to 'ask'.
Assimilation is a sound becoming more like a neighbour, dissimilation is two similar sounds becoming less alike, and assibilation is a change of a sound into a sibilant (s-like) sound. None of these involves a swap in sound order, so option B is right.
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