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Example sentences for: onomastic
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Someone cutting up a farm into small lots will try to communicate a feeling of spaciousness with such words as Ranch, Estate, Manor , or Garden . Sometimes the onomastic irony merely resulted in two viable perceptions of the same place.
Just a little effort on the part of people with names like this--put Cox with Willing , for example, and something has to happen--could take some of the strain off the neurotically prolific Martins, Bernards , and Petits and send a welcome ray of sunshine into the gloom-filled halls of the French Onomastic Society.
The author explicitly refrains from examples of nomination, in code names, code-numbered names, anonyms, pet names, name-changing, and other onomastic oddities in this material (p. 285).
According to Bowman, Musical Names: The Titles of Symphonies is a beginning on an abundant onomastic field.
His book has not been written for people like me, and its real impact will have to be judged when it gets into the hands of those intended readers who are not already onomastic freaks.
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