oronym

[Mark A. Mandel]

Lynne Murphy <lynnem at COGS.SUSX.AC.UK> writes:

>>>>>
Does anyone know when the term 'oronym' was coined?  (It's a synonym for
'mondegreen'.)  Gyles Brandreth uses it in _The Joy of Lex_ (1980) (did he
coin it?) and I've seen it a lot since Pinker used it in _The Language
Instinct_.
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Without this context, I would have taken it to mean 'name of a mountain'.
(Orogeny, the set of processes by which mountains are formed. < Gk oros
'mountain')

-- Mark