Handel, for instance, although living nearly all his life in England, never became quite master of its language; hence the numerous cases of the Misplacing of syllables in his oratorios.
"Style in Singing"
W. E. Haslam
And this alteration is sometimes by adding sometimes by rabbating, of a sillable or letter to or from a word either in the beginning, middle or ending ioyning or vnioyning of sillibles and letters suppressing or confounding their seueral soundes, or by Misplacing of a letter, or by cleare exchaunge of one letter for another, or by wrong ranging of the accent.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
The Misplacing of a punctuation mark gave the statement, as received by Mr. Davis, a totally different meaning from that which General Beauregard had intended.
"Recollections of a Varied Life"
George Cary Eggleston