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littlewhitehouse BOOKS (read in 2026 - 80 books challenge)
evelyn television (10/26)
and home
heresy 26 (fall sem goals)
cedar currently
  • anadrome﹕ redrum ← murder ﹕ ⤳
  • antanaclasis ﹕ your argument is sound, nothing but sound ﹕ ⤳
  • anti-proverb ﹕ All's well that ends. ﹕ ⤳
  • aptronym ﹕ C. Coke, drug dealer; J. Float, swimmer ﹕ ⤳
  • autogram ﹕ This sentence employs two a's, two c's, ... ﹕ ⤳
  • autological word ﹕ short; pentasyllabic; writable ﹕ ⤳
  • backronym ﹕ S.O.S. → save our ship ﹕ ⤳
  • blend word / portmanteau ﹕ brunch; smog; chortle; cosplay ﹕ ⤳
  • bushism ﹕ I think we agree, the past is over. ﹕ ⤳
  • cacography ﹕ I can has cheezburger? ﹕ ⤳
  • capitonym ﹕ god vs God; to polish vs Polish; liberal vs Liberal ﹕ ⤳
  • contronym ﹕ to dust; cleave; sanction; overlook ﹕ ⤳
  • daffynition ﹕ denial = a river in Africa; dilate = to live long ﹕ ⤳
  • dangling modifiers ﹕ One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. ﹕ ⤳
  • double entendre ﹕ I love sausages in my mouth! ﹕ ⤳
  • dysphemism ﹕ bitch; chicken; jackass; fag; fanny ﹕ ⤳
  • eggcorn ﹕ bone apple tea ﹕ ⤳
  • emotive conjugation ﹕ I have reconsidered the matter vs. you have changed your mind. ﹕ ⤳
  • euphemism ﹕ 'family planning' = contraception ﹕ ⤳
  • folk etymology ﹕ cucaracha → cockroach ﹕ ⤳
  • garden-path sentences ﹕ The old man the boat. ﹕ ⤳
  • gramogram / letteral word ﹕ ICQ = i seek you; IOU = i owe you ﹕ ⤳
  • kenning ﹕ Drahtesel; Stubentiger ﹕ ⤳
  • malapropism ﹕ off-the-docks jews; bride and glum ﹕ ⤳
  • minced oath ﹕ oh gosh; oh fudge ﹕ ⤳
  • mondegreen / soramimi ﹕ like the legend of the penis ﹕ ⤳
  • onomatopoeia ﹕ meow; boom; bang; tic tac; pop; fizz ﹕ ⤳
  • palindrome ﹕ madam; racecar ﹕ ⤳
  • pangram ﹕ The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ﹕ ⤳
  • paraprosdokian ﹕ On the other hand, you have different fingers. ﹕ ⤳
  • paronomastic pun ﹕ Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. ﹕ ⤳
  • paronyms ﹕ collision&collusion, affect&effect; upmost&utmost ﹕ ⤳
  • phantonym﹕ noisome (refers to smell, not sound) ﹕ ⤳
  • RAS syndrome ﹕ HIV virus; DC comics ﹕ ⤳
  • reborrowing ﹕ (fr.) tenez → (en.) tennis → (fr.) tennis ﹕ ⤳
  • rebus ﹕ h👂 = hear ﹕ ⤳
  • recursive acronym ﹕ PHP = PHP Hypertext Preprocessor ﹕ ⤳
  • retronym ﹕ acoustic guitar; analog watch; world war I ﹕ ⤳
  • russian reversal ﹕ In Soviet Russia, the Oscars host you! ﹕ ⤳
  • skunked term ﹕ literally; a moot point; humbled ﹕ ⤳
  • snowclone ﹕ X is the new Y; the mother of all X ﹕ ⤳
  • spoonerism ﹕ Buck frex-it! ﹕ ⤳
  • syntactic ambiguity ﹕ I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola. ﹕ ⤳
  • tautology ﹕ Only time will tell if we stand the test of time ﹕ ⤳
  • unpaired word ﹕ e.g. ̶d̶i̶s̶gruntled; ̶n̶o̶n̶chalant; ̶n̶o̶n̶plussed ﹕ ⤳

and the less interesting ones: demonym, acronym, homonyms, heteronyms ...

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