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* ''[[Pars pro toto]]'', or a name applied to something that covers only part of a region. People often use ''[[Holland]]'' to mean the [[Netherlands]], while it only designates a part of that country.<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
* ''[[Pars pro toto]]'', or a name applied to something that covers only part of a region. People often use ''[[Holland]]'' to mean the [[Netherlands]], while it only designates a part of that country.<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
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* Referring to the suburbs of a [[metropolis]] with the name of the biggest city in the metropolis.<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
* Referring to the suburbs of a [[metropolis]] with the name of the biggest city in the metropolis.<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
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* A name of a place with a wrong position of their cardinal direction, such as the [[Indonesia]]n province of [[North Sulawesi]] is not actually located in the north. Otherwise, the province is located on the eastern side of the island of [[Sulawesi]].<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
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* A name being based on a similarity in a particular aspect (e.g., "shooting stars" look like falling stars but are actually [[meteor]]s).<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
* A name being based on a similarity in a particular aspect (e.g., "shooting stars" look like falling stars but are actually [[meteor]]s).<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
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* A difference between popular and technical meanings of a term. For example, a [[koala]] "bear" (see below) superficially looks and acts like a [[bear]], but is quite distinct and unrelated. Similarly, [[firefly|fireflies]] fly like [[fly|flies]], and [[Coccinellidae|ladybugs]] look and act like [[hemiptera|bugs]]. Botanically, [[peanut]]s are not [[nut (fruit)|nuts]], even though they look and taste somewhat like nuts. The technical sense is often cited as the "correct" sense, but this is a matter of context.<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
* A difference between popular and technical meanings of a term. For example, a [[koala]] "bear" (see below) superficially looks and acts like a [[bear]], but is quite distinct and unrelated. Similarly, [[firefly|fireflies]] fly like [[fly|flies]], and [[Coccinellidae|ladybugs]] look and act like [[hemiptera|bugs]]. Botanically, [[peanut]]s are not [[nut (fruit)|nuts]], even though they look and taste somewhat like nuts. The technical sense is often cited as the "correct" sense, but this is a matter of context.<!-- BY CONSENSUS, THE NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IS LIMITED. DO NOT ADD NEW ITEMS WITHOUT CONSENSUS. --> |
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Amisnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied.[1] Misnomers often arise because something was named long before its correct nature was known, or because an earlier form of something has been replaced by a later form to which the name no longer suitably applies. A misnomer may also be simply a word that someone uses incorrectly or misleadingly.[2] The word "misnomer" does not mean "misunderstanding" or "popular misconception",[2] and a number of misnomers remain in common usage — which is to say that a word being a misnomer does not necessarily make usage of the word incorrect.
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Some of the sources of misnomers are:
The term anachronym as defined in Garner's Modern English Usage[3] refers to this type of misnomer. Examples cited by Garner include the persistence of the word dial in its telephoning sense after the rotary dial era and the persistence of the term tin foil in the aluminum foil era.[3] Anachronyms should not be confused with anacronyms, which are words such as laser and sonar that have acronymic origin but are generally no longer treated like conventional acronyms (that is, they are used syntactically like any other words, without reference to their original expansions).
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