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ventaToday, The Calendar has produced a Good Word.
autonomasy - a word of common or general signification used for the name of a particular thing, as... "the city" instead of London.
Compare with 8th January:
antomasy - the use of a name of some office, dignity, profession, science of trade, instead of the true name of the person, as when "His Majesty" is used for a king.
(Both these come from Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon... of Every Word Usually Employed in Science, Literature and Art, c. 1850)
I like these. They are Good and Useful words, in that they neatly define a concept for which one might plausibly want a word, and where there isn't one already existing.
In other news, track 10 of The Beginning Stages Of... doesn't half go on.
autonomasy - a word of common or general signification used for the name of a particular thing, as... "the city" instead of London.
Compare with 8th January:
antomasy - the use of a name of some office, dignity, profession, science of trade, instead of the true name of the person, as when "His Majesty" is used for a king.
(Both these come from Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon... of Every Word Usually Employed in Science, Literature and Art, c. 1850)
I like these. They are Good and Useful words, in that they neatly define a concept for which one might plausibly want a word, and where there isn't one already existing.
In other news, track 10 of The Beginning Stages Of... doesn't half go on.
