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if I apprehend (yet another!) David's question correctly, he seeks not words that can be defined in two nearly opposite senses (self-contradicting, enantiodromic)*, but rather words such as those in column one of the "cabbage puzzle"--non-selfdescriptive (heterological) words; e.g., monosyllabic, adjective.
one of my favorite words which exhibits this quality is orthoepy, which has the meaning "the customary pronunciation of words"; orthoepy has two accepted pronunciations.
*self-contradicting words have been discussed in these pages to some degree in the past.
(for that matter, heterological words have come up in a couple of threads, notably this one: http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=6120)
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dschwartz65 01/04/2003 5:25 PM ![]()
cabbage [wink]
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tsuwm 01/04/2003 8:24 PM ![]()
strange loops are everywhere
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Faldage 01/05/2003 1:21 PM ![]()
This satement is false.
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