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As the main purpose of this collection is to trace the origins of folk metaphor in English, nearly all examples of metonymy, synecdoche and swearing have been omitted as being too marginal or personal...
2. tout aux tavernes et aux fiells--to the taverns and to the bitter gall and bile, which I believe to be synecdoche for evil women.
That the Egyptians recognized an elemental chemistry—the word khem is a very old name for the black alluvium of the Nile delta, and thus, by synecdoche, for Egypt itself—is argued at some length by R. A. Schwaller de Lubizc in his titanic book on the temple of Apet of the South at Luxor, The Temple of Man (Inner Traditions International, Rochester, VT: in press).
The piece is bylined with pseudonyms but bears the unmistakable mark of comic novelist David Foster Wallace: excessive footnotes, excessive and nontraditional abbreviations, excessive and occasionally cloying self-consciousness, gratuitous use of Latin phrases, and employment of 10 cent words such as "cathedra," "synecdoche," and "clerestories."
Bennett had reviewed that speech before Bush gave it, though he emphasized at today's press conference that he didn't insert the Bork swipe, and that when he read it he didn't really think of it as a Bork swipe so much as a "synecdoche" for the excessive social-issues pessimism that is common among conservatives.