- 2nd ed.
Oxford 2005, p. 30 ("
autological"), p. 170 ("heterological"), p. 156 ("Grelling's paradox") Look up
autological in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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Suppose one
interprets the
adjectives "
autological" and "heterological" as follows: An
adjective is
autological (sometimes homological) if it describes...
- jobs of
around 1,300 employees. The
company completed the
acquisition of
Autologic, car-transporter firm, in
August 2012. In
March 2014
Stobart Group announced...
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major dictionaries and is a
curiosity or
piece of
trivia for
being an
autological word
because of its meta
quality as a
synonym of synonym.
Antonyms are...
- "sharp-dull", "keenly stupid", or "pointedly foolish". The word
oxymoron is
autological, i.e., it is
itself an
example of an oxymoron. The Gr****
compound word...
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William Shakespeare's "to the
manner born" with "to the
manor born". The
autological word "eggcorn" is
itself an eggcorn,
derived from acorn.
Eggcorns arise...
- three-letters long are very
common and TLA is, in fact, a TLA. TLA is
autological. Most TLAs are
initialisms (the
initial letter of each word of a phrase)...
- words.: 50 The word
verlan itself is an
example of
verlan (making it an
autological word). It is
derived from
inverting the
sounds of the
syllables in l'envers...
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within a word is inverted, is also
widely used. The term "verlan" is an
autological example of the
process it describes,
derived from
inverting the syllables...
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stands for
redundant acronym syndrome (making the
phrase "RAS syndrome"
autological) is the
redundant use of one or more of the
words that make up an acronym...
