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oronym
oronym
English
Noun
oronym (plural oronyms)
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"I scream" / "ice cream" |
- A word or phrase that sounds the same as another word or phrase.
- 2008, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins, page 101:
- An oronym that comes from mishearing the lyrics of a song is most often called a mondegreen.
- 2010, Andrew Nevins, Locality in Vowel Harmony, page 203:
- Vowel harmony may serve the purpose of parsing the morphosyntactic words in phrases (i.e., oronym avoidance).
- 2012, Rod L. Evans, Tyrannosaurus Lex, chapter 14:
- The comedian Jeff Foxworthy often uses oronyms in his Appalachian comedy routine, as when he uses a sentence with moustache: "I moustache [must ask] you a question."
- 2008, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins, page 101:
- The toponym of a mountain