Countertenor
"And words are all I have to steal your heart away."
Thursday, October 27, 2011
nomenclaturism
"nomenclaturism"
is the not
ion that words have a one-to-one relationship to the things they purport to name.
(From today's WSJ review of
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
by David Bellos.)
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