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Posts Tagged 'lexicology'
A Brief History of OK [video]
Published September 20, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: history, language, lexicology, OK, okay, Old Kinderhook, oll korrect, vernacular, video
25 Words For Other Words
Published August 28, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: anacronym, ananym, autoantonym, autological, backronym, capitonym, contronym, demonym, Dictionary, emordnilap, endonym, English language, exonym, heterological, holonymy, holophrase, homoeosemant, Homophone, hypernym, hyponyms, Janus word, lexicography, lexicology, meronymy, oxytone, paroxytone, proparoxtone, retronym, tautonym, troponym, words
This article, from Mental_floss, concerns 25 are rarely used words that describe unusual parts of the English language. I must admit that nearly every item on this list were unknown to me. Even after reading the explanation, I’m not sure what a troponym is (WordPress’s spell check doesn’t recognize it either). Word nerds will love the article.
