Friday, January 23, 2009
Nantonym
As I was brushing my teeth this morning I wondering, why didn’t they make the opposite of antonym “nanotonym” as in “not antonym”, instead of synonym? I looked it up on dictionary.com and I suppose the way they did it makes sense. The suffix “nym” means word; “ant” is short for “anti” which is Greek for opposite; and “syn” is Greek for same. So, fine, it makes sense, but I stand by my thought that nantonym would be more fun to say.
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Ever thought about the word Won't? Won't means Will Not - shouldn't it be Willn't? I think that would be more fun to say as well!
Good post!
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