Sunday, October 11, 2009

Further on the subject of "Phantonyms"

Confession: It seems I have not been a careful researcher and user of language. "Phantonym" is a word invented by Rosenthal. Unlike synonym and antonym, "phantonym" cannot be found in a dictionary. A web search, however, does bring up many responses to Rosenthal's piece and further discussion of tricky words with shades of meaning that stump us.

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