Example sentences for: onomatoplazia

How can you use “onomatoplazia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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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