The phrase "altering words" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the modification or change of specific words in a text or speech.
Example: "The author focused on altering words to better convey the emotional depth of the characters."
Alternatives: "modifying terms" or "changing vocabulary".
Nor have they hesitated to treat their poets in cavalier fashion: changing titles, altering words, omitting or repeating lines or whole stanzas.
Finally, they write the thesis statement from memory one last time, altering words, reordering clauses, and otherwise articulating it in a different way.
But the film's success was also due to Brando, who by all reports invented Terry as much as played him, freely altering words and scenes with an infallible sense of what the gentle, tortured boy would do.
But it also encouraged people to alter words not ending in "o" that did not need to be changed.
The two languages are considered almost interchangeable, but Croats made a conscious attempt to alter words after they declared independence in 1991.
Changes to legislation and services have affected people's lives, while the language around disability has altered – words such as 'spastic', 'cripple' and 'cretin' were once used freely and without thought of offence.
Within a sentence, a few misheard and then altered words can reshape the sentence and its true or intended meaning.
On the latter track, Busta Rhymes raps the iconic (but slightly altered) words, "Rise up / if you're living on your knees," along with the additional lyrics, "Every city, every hood, we need to rise up / All my soldiers, what's good?
When reviewing the results of card sorting, other design elements that may alter word meanings should also be considered.
"Kellogg's resolution of this case is part of a trend," she said, adding that a number of companies have altered wording on their products in the face of similar litigation.
In essence, several reasons may explain why causal effects of motor cortex stimulation were pronounced for tongue-sound-initial words, but marginal for lip words considered separately; importantly, however, the significant interaction of stimulation site and phonemic word type proves that motor cortex stimulation altered word comprehension processes in a phoneme-specific manner.
