Example sentences for: onomatoplazia

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

  • Mr. Thomas B. Lemann points out that the transliteration of the opening quotation of “Onomatoplazia” [XV, 1] contains the following errors:

  • The onomatoplazia of inflammable is so common that flammable , or even flamable is now commonly substituted, especially on trucks.

  • The “lowing herd” (“Onomatoplazia”) wound slowly in the first verse of “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” by Thomas Gray, not Oliver Goldsmith.

  • A salute to Delaney for creating onomatoplazia , a much-needed new word.

  • Note: this is an example of a “HobsonJobson”—foreign words or expressions twisted into a more familiar configuration by the pervasive influence of linguistic chauvinism, a rich source of onomatoplazia.


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