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/Home/Languages/Reading & Literacy/Vocabulary/Spoonerisms & Oxymora Lists of Oxymora (oxymorons), Serious and Humorous Votes:0 Web Word Explorations Site Find the word or words that you want to see on this site or on the Internet. It’s Oxymora, Idiots Savants, not Oxymorons! An oxymoron is a literary figure of speech in which contradictory or opposite terms or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means. The word is said to come from the Greek elements, oxy- = “sharp, pointed” and moros, moron = “dull, foolish”; in other words, “pointedly foolish”. An oxymoron is also said to be “a wittily paradoxical turn of phrase that appeals to ‘unconscious responses instead of rational examinations.’ ” Wow! Did you grasp all of that? Sometimes dictionaries can create more confusion than clarification. Well, I’m sure you’ve Read More Go to Site Spoonerisms Votes:0 Spoonerisms Subscribe E-mail Words Bookshop Link to this Site Take Our Survey Add to Favorites BORED? Play our free word games – BOGGLE and HANGMAN Spoonerisms Spoonerisms are words or phrases in which letters or syllables get swapped. This often happens accidentally in slips of the tongue (or tips of the slung as Spoonerisms are often affectionately called!): Tease my ears ( Ease my tears ) A lack of pies ( A pack of lies ) It's roaring with pain ( It's pouring with rain ) Wave the sails ( Save the whales ) More Spoonerisms The end is listless! Can you figure these next ones out? Answers here! Chipping the flannel At the lead of spite Hiss and lear Go and shake a tower Answers and more... Rude Spoonerisms (not for children or the easily offended) Send us your favourite spoonerisms . Read More Go to Site UA18 - nyheter Votes:0 Ansvarlig redaktØr: InformasjonsdirektØr Teknisk ansvarlig: Erik Prytz Reitan Stewart's corner Oxymoron An oxymoron is a word like firewater that is self-contradictory. Frequently, oxymoronic terms like old news are used without us thinking about what we are really saying. A double classic is fresh frozen, jumbo shrimp , where apart from its dubious freshness we have the problem of size when «jumbo» means very large, and «shrimp» is both a shellfish (Norw. reke ) and also something very small. Appropriately, the term oxymoron is itself oxymoronic because it is formed from two Greek roots with opposite meanings (adj. -oxy, which is «pointed and keen», and moros «foolish», the same root as the word «moron»). Oxymoron is the singular form and oxymora is the plural form, not «oxymorons». Oxymo Read More Go to Site

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