Add to ORKGEnglish is peppered with contronyms - those words that mean one thing in one context, and the opposite in another. Where do they come from and what do they signify, asks linguist Kate Burridge in this conversation with Peter Clarke. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 28 March 2016
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In language, ambiguity is often considered a problem. Ambiguity can be found in every aspect of lang...
The thesis explores the importance of connotation within English as a lingua franca (ELF) and the im...
In his August 1977 Word Ways article on words ending in -onym, George Scheetz asked readers if they ...
Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke discuss how and why we turn nouns into verbs into adjectives. Intervi...
Benedict Cumberbatch set off a small storm when he unconsciously pronounced penguin as "pengwing" in...
Dutch courage, French letters, it's all Greek to me... In the latest Inside Language podcast, Peter ...
In the February 1978 issue of Word Ways I unveiled twenty contronyms -- single words for which two c...
Contronyms were not among the categories of “nyms” I learned as a child. I know all about synonyms, ...
THere are two ways to try this little teaser: either match the definitions in the left-hand (numbere...
International audienceThe aim of the present study was to test experimentally the claim that the mea...
conkleCONKLE conkle Pron. form. Confusion of several kinds and little folk evidence. _conk_, _c...
A contronym or autontonym is a polysemous word where one of the meanings is the antonym of another-t...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
The etymology of words can provide insight into our language. C.S. Lewis published Studies in Words ...
One of the most familiar characters of contemporary American cartoon land is a father figure called ...
In language, ambiguity is often considered a problem. Ambiguity can be found in every aspect of lang...
The thesis explores the importance of connotation within English as a lingua franca (ELF) and the im...