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  1. n. Obsolete spelling of synecdoche.

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  • rolig I suppose if one had WORDIE PRO, one might receive a gentle notice when one lists a misspelled word, to the effect:

    "SYNECHDOCHE is a misspelling. Do you wish to continue listing it?" Feb 25, 2009

  • sionnach people! pleashe shtop lishting thish non-word. Feb 25, 2009

  • reesetee Well, that settles that then, doesn't it? OED stands corrected.

    *moves to synecdoche page* Jul 31, 2008

  • qroqqa This is not a variant spelling—that is, not one you could use if you chose to and be correct. The last non-standard spelling the OED records is this one, in 1612: 'By these two blessings (to wit) the sunne & raine meaning al other earthly benefits whatsoever, by the figure synechdoche.' If you write 'al', or 'sunne', or 'raine', by all means write 'synechdoche', but don't expect to get it by living proof-readers.

    There's another instance of this from 1551; while in a 1548 source we find 'They imagyne a Sinecdoch to be in thys worde' and 'The subtyll cauillacyons, whereby they fayne Sinecdochine'. That was how they spelt then; it isn't now. Jul 31, 2008

  • reesetee Apparently, this is a variant spelling (at least according to the OED). Apr 22, 2008

  • plethora So did I. Apr 22, 2008

  • sionnach I always thought this was spelled synecdoche. Apr 22, 2008

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