I'm a writer, and writers love words. We like playing with them. Writing them, rearranging then, substituting for them, playing around with rhyme and cadence and structure. It's why I love doing crossword puzzles, and especially why I love puns -- layering double meanings into just a few words is an intellectual challenge as well as an exercise in humor. So I was thinking about words recently, looking for a synonym of a word, when I realized something:
The antonym of "synonym" is "antonym", and the antonym of "antonym" is "synonym"... but "synonym" has no synonym.
And by that, I mean a word that specifically is a synonym for "synonym". Thesaurus.com, for example, listed the word "equivalent", but that's more generic; "synonym" refers specifically to words. Even synonym.com came up short
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This strikes me as not just odd but also hilariously ironic. It's like abbreviation being such a long ...
