misnomer's
misnomer's
It is spring now, and the flowers are starting to bloom also bringing sleeping insects awake. They are not building me a house they are trying to eat it. So why call them carpenter ants? What's your favorite misnomer's?
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Well, there's always the old English Horn. Neither a brass horn, nor English in origin.
And I still don't buy "rest" room. I couldn't think of a public place I want to get out of quicker. Nothin relaxin except the body parts, but even then, I am in a hurry. That's not resting.. But old polite euphemisms bein' what they are and all....
And I still don't buy "rest" room. I couldn't think of a public place I want to get out of quicker. Nothin relaxin except the body parts, but even then, I am in a hurry. That's not resting.. But old polite euphemisms bein' what they are and all....
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...are oxymorons rather than misnomers.Cofaidh wrote:Microsoft Works!
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They're from South America, right? Guyana and French Guyana. I have a Quechua friend from Peru who says they're a common food source. And some friends here in Alaska who raise them for food for their family.aderyn_du wrote:Guinea Pigs. If they're not from Guinea, and they're not a pig... then, why?
Nome, in Alaska, was originally scrawled by a cartographer as Cape Name? and someone misread the handwriting.
Chicken, Alaska, is because ptarmigan was too hard to spell, I'm told.
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