What's a paronym?
I really want to know what a paronym is because we're supposed use them in class.
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"Two words are paronyms when their phonemic representations are similar but not identical.
(Salvatore Attardo, Linguistic Theories of Humor. Walter de Gruyter, 1994)
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A paronym word is a word that derives from another word, and that has a related meaning.
It is also used for words originated from a word in a different language.
- wisdom with wise
- angelic with angel
- carry with carrus