Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From oro- (“of mountains”) + -onym.
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mk ороним (Translations) · et oronüüm (Translations) · it oronimia (Translations) · et pinnavorminimi (Translations) · et mäenimi (Translations)
The coinage of this word is usually attributed to Gyles Brandreth (see quotation below). The etymology is unexplained, but perhaps from or + -onym.
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."2012, Rod L. Evans, chapter 14, in Tyrannosaurus Lex:
Vowel harmony may serve the purpose of parsing the morphosyntactic words in phrases (i.e., oronym avoidance).2010, Andrew Nevins, Locality in Vowel Harmony, page 203:
[…]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.[1980, Gyles Brandreth, The Joy of Lex, New York, NY, United States: William Morrow and Company, Inc., page 58:
An oronym that comes from mishearing the lyrics of a song is most often called a mondegreen.2008, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins, page 101:
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eggcorn · paronym · holorhyme · mondegreen · homophone