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I drive an oxymoron! a/k/a the Oxymoron thread (for word nerds and geeks only)

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For any word geeks or nerds out there...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron...

..."oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good"). Lederer (1990), in the spirit of "recreational linguistics", goes as far as to construct "logological oxymorons" such as reading the word nook as composed of "no" and "ok" or the surname Noyes as composed of "no" plus "yes", or far-fetched punning such as "divorce court", "U.S. Army Intelligence" or "press release".[9]...
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I noticed the Noyes one myself MANY years ago. It's a secondary, more-than-side-street in Evanston, an upscale Chicago suburb, among other places I've seen the name.

What would OUIJA be considered? Yes in French, yes in German, so not an oxymoron. No contradiction. A bilingual portmanteau?

What about Hershey? Sounds like "her" and "she." (I noticed this on my own, too. I'm a certified word geek and lexophile.)

Press release is one of my favorites, but my favorite may be "That building is PRETTY UGLY." I'm also recently taken to using "wicked good" to describe something that is wonderful. This is mostly limited to Maine and northern New England from Boston on up.

JUMBO shrimp is another fun one...

So, yes, I DRIVE AN OXYMORON!!

RAM: To deliberately or accidentally slam against or run into
DODGE: To evade something or somebody which is going to slam or run into you

I drive...what?...a DODGE RAM Pro-Master van.

Do you have any favorite oxymorons?
 
^ Not an oxymoron at all. I mean, seriously, would anybody fuck Olive Oyl from the Popeye cartoons? :p

My favorite oxymoron name for a geographical location, it's way out toward the end of the Aleutians: Unalaska, Alaska
 
I'm a word nerd, too.
I was looking for something to post and I remembered the old Spanish word sino (destiny), which interestingly contains SÍ (yes) and NO (no).
 
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