# What's another word for synonym?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 3, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193 "2002-07-03T14:16:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193/21 "2002-07-03T20:53:04Z")

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> I’m not questioning your intelligence, Happy Lendervedder , but please note #9.

I was being a wise-ass. Sorry, I thought that was obvious.  
And I agree-- this thread needs to be shot.

Happy

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193/22 "2002-07-03T22:07:52Z")

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Why is ‘abbreviation’ such a long word?  
Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?  
Why is the word ‘Dictionary’ in the dictionary?

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**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193/23 "2002-07-03T22:19:47Z")

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Was George Carlin on television recently? Usually we have some newbee come up with these when he has just been on. It would be different if they were original, but to steal from Carlin shows no creativity at all.

Do your own stuff, not Carlin’s, OK **Flip-Disc**?

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193/24 "2002-07-03T23:05:49Z")

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Steven Wright, not George Carlin. Most of the “questions only idiots ask” list are either cribbed from Wright or Gallagher. The pure word trick ones are usually Gallagher (how come we call them apartments when they’re all stuck together?). This kind of odd perception of internal inconsistency is the hallmark of Steven Wright.

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**Author:** ![maikai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@maikai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maikai)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193/25 "2002-07-04T01:40:06Z")

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This is a hijack, but what is the answer to

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> why don’t you ask them about the three words that end in “gry”?

I got this in an email and I’ve been thinking about it for a week.  
Is there even an answer?

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**Author:** ![Prez2032](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@Prez2032](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prez2032)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193/26 "2002-07-04T02:18:37Z")

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I believe that “poecilonym” is a synonym for “synonym.”

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-another-word-for-synonym/117193/27 "2002-07-04T02:52:18Z")

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A couple of links before we go …

[What are the three English words ending in -gry?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_251.html)

[Questions we refuse to answer](http://www.straightdope.com/faq/lamequestions.html)

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