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Perhaps no issue better illustrates the poverty of our political and intellectual culture than the so-called debate over Black English, or as it has now been christened, Ebonics.
In recognition of this achievement, the lepidopterists have christened some recently discovered specimens of the Polyommatini with Nabokovian names, such as Madeleinea lolita .
Mr Rivers' assistant, Freddie Fly, wrote an Ode to the Grockle and the coaches bringing the tourists were christened grockle wagons .
"From the kitchen to the garage, they've christened practically every room."
In parallel with the roots of onomatopoeia (onoma `name' + poiein `to make or do') I have christened the effect onomatoplazia: onoma again + pladzein `to mislead or deceive.