oronymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From oro- (“of mountains”) +‎ -onym.

名詞

oronym (plural oronyms)

1. The toponym of a mountain.

語源 2

The coinage of this word is usually attributed to Gyles Brandreth (see quotation below). The etymology is unexplained, but perhaps from or +‎ -onym.

名詞

oronym (plural oronyms)

1. A phrase or sentence that sounds the same as another phrase or sentence.
   • [1980, Gyles Brandreth, The Joy of Lex, New York, NY, United States: William Morrow and Company, Inc., page 58:

     […] sometimes what you hear isn't what you're supposed to hear. Oronyms are sentences that can be read in two ways with the same sound.]

   • 2008, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins, page 101:

     An oronym that comes from mishearing the lyrics of a song is most often called a mondegreen.

   • 2010, Andrew Nevins, Locality in Vowel Harmony, page 203:

     Vowel harmony may serve the purpose of parsing the morphosyntactic words in phrases (i.e., oronym avoidance).

   • 2012, Rod L. Evans, chapter 14, in Tyrannosaurus Lex:

     The comedian Jeff Foxworthy often uses oronyms in his Appalachian comedy routine, as when he uses a sentence with moustache: "I moustache [must ask] you a question."

参考

• holorhyme
• eggcorn
• homophone
• mondegreen
• paronym

参照

アナグラム

• Monroy