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From: lambert@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Searching for a word
Message-ID: <6779@boring.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 07:22:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 07:22:55 1986
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References: <361@uw-june> <1668@wanginst.UUCP> <1647@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <340@gargoyle.UUCP>
Reply-To: lambert@boring.UUCP (Lambert Meertens)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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Summary: Metonym is an existing word
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In article <340@gargoyle.UUCP> carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) writes:

> [...] Here are some more words that should be words but aren't:
> [...]
> metonym	changed name

From a dictionary:
  metonym: a word used by metonymy.
  metonymy: (Rhet.) the use of a name of one thing for that
    of another to which it has some logical relation, as
    "scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong
    drink."

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     Lambert Meertens
     ...!{seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!lambert@mcvax.UUCP
     CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam