NEW WORDS

Apart from learning about the "isms" I remember mentioning that I wanted to improve my vocabulary this year. Well, I recently found this site while I was doing a general blog search for stuff to show the kids and fell in love with it.
 One list I found particularly humorous (and relevent considering the categorising aspect of the 'isms' project) was this list of 'names for names':



acronym word formed from initial letters of another word


allonym other person's name used by an author


ananym name written backward; often used as synonym


anonym person whose name is not given; pseudonym


antonym word whose meaning is the opposite of a given word


aptronym name that suits its owner


autonym a writer's real name; work published under writer's own name


caconym wrongly derived name


cohyponym word which is one of multiple hyponyms of another word


cryptonym secret name


dionym name containing two parts or terms


eponym personal name from which another name is derived


euonym a pleasing or beautiful name


euonymous appropriately named


euphonym euphonious synonym


exonym name for a town or country in a foreign language


heteronym word having same spelling but different sound and meaning


homonym words having the same sound but different meanings


hypernym word representing a class of words or things


hyponym term which is a member of a larger class


isonym word having the same derivation or form as another


meronym word whose relation to another is a part to the whole


metonymy figurative use of word to name an attribute of its subject


metronymy system of naming after the mother's or female line


onymous bearing the author’s name


paedonymic name taken from one's child


paranym euphemism; word whose meaning altered to conceal evasion


paronym word from same root or having same sound as another


patronym name derived from father's name


poecilonym synonym


polyonym name consisting of several words


pseudonym fictitious name used by an author


retronym new name as modification of older term used alone


synonym word whose meaning is the same as another word


tautonym taxonomic name in which genus and species are the same


teknonymy the naming of the parent from the child


toponym place name derived from geographical feature


trionym name consisting of three words



Wow! I hardly knew any of these!!! but i am already getting ready to put them into the vernacular....especially retronym, caconym, and polyonym!!!! And I can just see myself going back to school and telling the kids we are now going to talk about 'poecilonyms' instead of 'synonyms'. 

But seriously i do get anoyed when people define a word by what it is equal to or what it is not equal to.  I am coming up against this with the 'isms' and it seems the 'nyms' are no different.  I have the utmost respect for the composers of dictionaries.  But it does make for interesting thinking.....?

What to to?