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Example sentences for: onomatoplazia
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These examples of onomatoplazia are a personal set, words that have led me astray.
The onomatoplazia of inflammable is so common that flammable , or even flamable is now commonly substituted, especially on trucks.
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.
Charles Delaney asks for further examples of onomatoplazia . Here are two which misled me for years:
The “lowing herd” (“Onomatoplazia”) wound slowly in the first verse of “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” by Thomas Gray, not Oliver Goldsmith.
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