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bookmarks:
mau about me (selfies)
music (how i want my love to sound)
people (jillian)
people (johnny)
people (mom)
  • 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, 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

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

jul 11 2024 ∞
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