The word "swop" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is commonly used as a verb to mean "to exchange something with someone else" or "to change something for something else of equal value". For example: "I wanted to swop my bicycle for a skateboard, but my parents wouldn't let me."
Lowry, in a letter to his friend the novelist David Markson, explained, "We swop horses and archetypes to each other all the time".
Swop buys clothing from the public and sells it back.
Oh, Stevie "To improve the Barcelona team how about swop Messi himself for Joe Cole," says Mike Gibbons, "who is as good if not better, or certainly was until recently?" More half-time thoughts "I have to defend Pedro the Canarian," says Ceci Marjakangas.
Instead they can continue to swop bon mots as columnists for the same paper.
But if you asked me to swop my nine gold medals for her, I'd do it in an instant.
Celtic travel the short distance to Love Street to play St Mirren, while Jimmy Calderwood's Aberdeen side swop the glamorous surroundings of a packed Allianz Arena, where they went out of the Uefa Cup 5-1 to Bayern Munich on Thursday night, for Rugby Park.
Later on Saturday evening we get to see two teams sadly swopping Mexican souvenirs.
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They won't be as rich as the Gilmour step-spawn, but most of them will be cut from the same cloth – pretending to be starving students/squatters when really they're Little Lord Fauntleroys who've swopped a cummerbund for a keffiyeh.
Now Ed Sheeran has swopped Suffolk for a Ford pick-up and ten-gallon hat after becoming the latest star to move to Nashville.
In the Grand Slam decider in Paris, if you had swopped their blue shirts for the white of the English, you would have assumed that the likes of Thierry Dusautoir, Lionel Nallet, Morgan Parra, Francois Trinh-Duc and Yannick Jauzion were English players, such was their adherence to a rigid forward orientated game allied to goal kicking.
