oronym
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Etymology 1
From oro- (“of mountains”) + -onym.
Noun
oronym (plural oronyms)
Etymology 2
Coinage usually attributed to Gyles Brandreth (see quotation below). The etymology is unexplained, but perhaps from or + -onym.[1]
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oronym (plural oronyms)
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."