[…]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.
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Oronym
Synonyms for "oronym"
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Translations
5 translations across 3 languages.
Estonian
3 entries- mäenimi noun (Translations)
- oronüüm noun (Translations)
- pinnavorminimi noun (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- oronimia noun (Translations)
Macedonian
1 entries- ороним noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
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An oronym that comes from mishearing the lyrics of a song is most often called a mondegreen.
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Vowel harmony may serve the purpose of parsing the morphosyntactic words in phrases (i.e., oronym avoidance).
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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."
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