Discussion
"He hissed mistery lectures" is an example of
Answer: B
He hissed mistery lectures is a spoonerism, option B. The speaker swapped initial sounds, so that the intended phrase missed history lectures became hissed mistery lectures. Swapping of sounds between words in this way is named after W. A. Spooner.
Epithesis (option A) is the addition of a sound at the end of a word. Dissimilation (option C) makes two similar sounds in a word less alike, and assimilation (option D) makes a sound more like a neighbour. None of these exchanges the onsets of two separate words.
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