Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Wordy Rappinghood

I'm out with a friend and somehow we start talking about homonyms. (He writes plays and stuff.) He mentions that there are homonyms that are also synonyms, such as an apple and a Washington Delicious Apple.

We spend a little time trying to come up with homonyms that are antonyms, which we don’t have any luck at, because we are on our third or forth beer.

This goes on for a while and then we start talking about words in general.

‘My favorite are onomatopoeias,’ I say, ‘that’s when a word sounds like what it is, as in gerrymandering.’

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