America's 10 Most-Wanted Words

[Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM]

Kathleen Miller <millerk at NYTIMES.COM> writes:

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That reminds me - I've been looking for just this sort of thing.

Is anyone aware of a word that is formed due to the way something looks?
Like onomatopoeia - but visual instead of aural?
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In answer to just this request from a friend a few months ago, I (coined and)
suggested
"iconopoeia".

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And Jesse - if you didn't link to the page yet, they're looking for the
female equivalent of phallic.
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"Yonic".


-- Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist,
   and Philological Busybody