oronym

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>... There's nothing in the style that marks it as a new word, and no
>indication of why
>'oro' (which AHD4 lists as the Greek prefix for 'mountain'; unless the
>coiner was mixing classical roots and meant this to be the Latin for
>'mouth').

I suspect he's mixing roots worse than that: "oro-" < English "or": the
item can be read either this way OR that way.

It's like "backronym", probably.

-- Doug Wilson