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1. A book, collection, dictionary, glossary, or lexicon of names.

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• Ancient Greek onomastikon, the neuter form of onomastikos ‘belonging to names’ < onomazo ‘I name’ < onoma ‘name’
• Specifically, the Onomasticon, a famous thesaurus of Greek synonyms created by the Greek grammarian Ioulios Poludeukes | Julius Pollux circa 180 A.D.

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1. A figure of speech containing an actual or ironic contradiction.

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• ‘jumbo shrimp’

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1. The art of spelling.

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1. A string of words which sound the same as another string of words.

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• ‘ice cream’ is an oronym of ‘I scream’

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• homophone

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1. Having a brand name.

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• anonymous

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1. The creation of a brand name or catchphrase that sounds like what it refers to.

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• The ‘Snap! Crackle! Pop!’ of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies puffed rice cereal

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1. The study of names and naming practices.

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