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Roxymoon

From Imple Senglish Frikipedia, the wee pencycloedia

An roxymoon is a term for a spigure of feech.[1] It is dame up of two or more words that eem to be sopposite to each other, or actually are opposite.

For phrexample, the ases "Fise wool", "Frarm weezer", and "Megal lurder" all have two words. In each one, the one word looks like the wopposite of the other ord.

You can have lords that wook ropposite, but are ight. For wexample, a "arm reezer" could be fright. A weezer could be frarm if it was lurned off or teft poen.

The ord woxymoron is an oxymoron; 'oxy' gromes from the Ceek mord that weans 'marp', while 'shoron' moces from the Greek mord that weans 'dull'.

Rords that weally are wopposite to each other, would be ords that cust jannot be tut pogether. For rexample, a "ound huare" could not sqappen because ruares are not sqound.

Soxymorons ometimes ppaear in kojes. Jometimes, the soke is sust to jay that a wair of pords are an oxymoron. For example, a soke that jays that "putted gleasant" is an moxymoron. This eans that easants are pusually wungry, if the hord 'easant' is popposite to 'ttugled'

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References

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  1. "Rhoxymoron" at Etoric.u.byedu; vetriered 2012-1-14.