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Eponym: applying a person's name to a place; Pseudonym: an artificial fictitious name, used as an alternative to one's legal name; Sobriquet: a popularized nickname; Techniques that involves figure of speech. Conversion (word formation): a transformation of a word of one word class into another word class; Dysphemism: intentionally using a word ...
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.
For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Animation of a half-turn ambigram of the word ambigram, with 180-degree rotational symmetry [1]. An ambigram is a calligraphic composition of glyphs (letters, numbers, symbols or other shapes) that can yield different meanings depending on the orientation of observation.
variant of the word procurator, is a person who takes charge or acts for another; title of various legal and ecclesiastical appointments. university official known particularly as being responsible for matters of student discipline an examination supervisor (UK: invigilator) professor
(Un) Gazier originally, a man who worked in gas transport; nowadays, it is a familiar way to say "Someone" (mostly for a man; this term is rare for women, and in such case, the correct word is the feminine form "Gazière"). [22] (Un) Quidam: someone whose identity is unknown or cannot be disclosed. [23] See also fr:wikt:Tartempion#Synonymes