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Tmesis (from Ancient Greek τμῆσις tmēsis, “a cutting” < τέμνω temnō, “I cut”) is a linguistic phenomenon or figure of speech in which a word of set phrase is separated into two parts, with other words occurring between them… bending the rule a bit to get Portugal-Megan-Angola, etc.

^{The Oxford Companion to the English Language, Oxford University Press (1992), p. 1044 (ISBN 0-19-214183-X)}

^{(But ya’ll know I got the definition straight from wikipedia.)}