paranomasia

• “But asyndeton is and so are all my old friends -- hysteron proteron, synecdoche, malapropism, and paranomasia, which is listed under puns.)”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4

• “Lastly, here is a paranomasia in the words “Ghuráb al-Bayn” = Raven of the”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Google now has a shopping comparison service called, in a fit of paranomasia, Froogle.”

  A Saturday Morning "I Have A Column To Write, So I'm Cat Hoovering" Review: Mortal Engines

• “These three words seem to be chosen for the sake of an elegant paranomasia, or, as we now scornfully call it, a jungle of words: Pachad, and Pachath, and Pach; but the meaning is plain (v. 18), that evil pursues sinners (Prov.xiii. 21), that the curse shall overtake the disobedient (Deut.xxviii. 15), that those who are secure because they have escaped one judgment know not how soon another may arrest them.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “If you say that "2 + 2 = 4", from now on I shall ignore the fact that "3 + 1 = 4" too or I'll stick to puns and paranomasia, whichever works”

  The Guardian World News

• “The probable paranomasia of the stressed "will" for William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Wroth's lover (Roberts, The Poems 115) unites Wroth with her persona, the "all-loving" Pamphilia, and serves to remind us that their views on love coincide.”

  Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania

• “This argument may seem to be undercut by the paranomasia of "Wroth" in "worth"; May Paulissen points out that "worth" was at the time the common pronunciation of "Wroth" (Paulissen 22).”

  Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania

• “As a Pisces, icthyan paranomasia is anathema to my anima.”

  Sadly, No!

• “Aristotle, in Rhetoric, held that several forms of paranomasia, as puns were once called, might be permissible in elegant writing.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1

• “(ibid.) by a paranomasia which causes no small perplexity to commentators.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

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