Another new word! My world is expanding day by day! And note, these words are not new nonsense words that are finding their way into Websters such as twerk (sheesh) Metonymy: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. or from Wikipedia: is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept. The words metonymy and metonym come from the Greek: μετωνυμία, metōnymía, a change of name, from μετά, metá, after, beyond and -ωνυμία, -ōnymía, a suffix used to name figures of speech, from ὄνῠμα, ónyma or ὄνομα, ónoma, name. Gives us a little origin of the name as well.....cool, huh? Imagine how many times the word asshole has been used as a metonymy...just sayin
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:39:55 +0000
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