oronym

[Lynne Murphy]

And now for something completely different...

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_.

It's not in the OED and none of my dictionaries has it.

Lynne

M Lynne Murphy
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