As noted in the first edition of There's a Name for It, you'll find many familiar words and expressions in our extensive Glossary of Grammatical & Rhetorical Terms: the names of the traditional parts of speech, for example, as well as common logical fallacies, modes of discourse, and figures of speech.

But you'll also find some less familiar terms in the glossary--playful terms like squish and gadzookery alongside such obscurities as iterative, antonomasia, and matrix.

All provide glimpses into the witty and wonderful world of language.

For instance, in our Glossary of Grammatical & Rhetorical Terms, you'll find a name for . . .

1. a soundalike swearword that allows one to cuss without being offensive (such as the euphemisticfrak popularized by the TV series Battlestar Galactica): minced oath
2. a pronunciation (like "Virging Islands"), word form ("octopi"), or grammatical construction ("between you and I") produced by mistaken analogy with standard usage out of a desire to be correct: hypercorrection
3. a word that carries within it a synonym of itself, such as devilish (evil): kangaroo word
4. a modifying word that undermines or contradicts the meaning of the word, phrase, or clause it accompanies (such as "genuine leatherette"): weasel word
5. a word that has never occurred in actual usage but that appears in one or more dictionaries, usually because of a lexicographical or typographical error: ghost word
6. the view that grammatical constructions do not have strict boundaries but occur on a continuum: squish

1. an adverb--such as high, fast, and hard--that has the same form as its corresponding adjective: flat adverb
2. a clause that contains a subordinate (or embedded) clause: matrix
3. a noise, gesture, word, or expression used by a listener to show that she's paying attention to a speaker (Uh-huh): back-channel signal
4. an utterance that has the form of a question but the force of a statement (Are you crazy?): queclarative
5. an ambiguous headline ("Stolen Painting Found by Tree"): crash blossom
6. a nonsensical piece of writing (most famously, perhaps, Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"): amphigory
7. a simplified version of English spelling that omits letters not needed to represent pronunciation (as in lernng to read and rite): Cut Spelling
8. the representation of regional or dialectal variations by spelling words in nonstandard ways, such as writing "dunno" for "don't know": eye dialect
9. two words that differ in only one sound (such as writer and rider): minimal pair
10. a name that matches the occupation or character of its owner, often in a humorous or ironic way: aptronym
11. a word or name that is secretly used to refer to a particular person, place, activity, or thing (such as Radiance and Rosebud, the Secret Service code names for President Obama's daughters): cryptonym
12. the substitution of a title or descriptive phrase for a proper name--as when Sawyer (in the TV program Lost) addresses his hefty companion Hurley as JumboTron or International House of Pancakes: antonomasia
13. a nonstandard verb form (usually the present participle) in which the base is preceded by the prefix a- (such as Bob Dylan's "I'm a-thinkin' and a-wonderin' all the way down the road"): a-verbing
14. a verb form indicating that an action is (or was) repeated: iterative
15. the use of archaic words and expressions, such as "prithee" and "methinks": gadzookery
16. the rhetorical strategy of forgiving an injury--usually to gain favor: syngnome
17. any construction in which a word group that usually follows the verb is placed at the beginning of a sentence: fronting
18. a phrase that appears at the end of a sentence to sum up what has just been said--a kind of recapitulation like this: summative modifier

Our Glossary of Grammatical & Rhetorical Terms is the Web's most extensive dictionary of language-related words and expressions in English. Definitions of more than 1,200 terms are accompanied by examples, usage notes, and cross-references to expanded discussions elsewhere on About.com Grammar & Composition.

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