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A.Word.A.Day--anthroponymPronunciation: WAV or RealAudioanthroponym (an-THROP-uh-nim) noun A personal name. [Anthrop(o)- + -onym] "Just as the toponyms in Onitsha evoke the unfamiliar, the `foreign,' so too do the anthroponyms. Fintan's own name, for instance, is a very strange one." Motte, Warren, Writing away, World Literature Today, Autumn 1997. This week's theme: words about words.
X-BonusIn all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. -Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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