On Sep 13, 1:09 pm, Kathryn Huxtable    
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   > On 2010-09-13 11:01:05 -0500, Doug Freyburger said:   
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   > > Dave Hayslett wrote:   
   > >> Joseph DeMartino wrote:   
   > >>> Amy Guskin  wrote:   
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   > >>>> In what sense?  I grew up with them, so I'm fine with the name.  My   
   > >>>> husband, who hails from central PA, always has to add, "But there's no   
   > >>>> egg, and there's no cream!"   
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   > >>> Have you broken the news about "baby oil" to him, yet?  ;-)   
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   > >> Also Girl Scout cookies.   
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   > > And lobster sauce!   
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   > > Wild rice is domesticated.  It parties hearty.   
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   > > The ones that fail to match either name like egg cream are still more   
   > > fun to me.  Pineapple.  Buckwheat.   
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   > The "Holy Roman Empire". I think it was Voltaire who pointed out that   
   > it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. There should be a word   
   > for such things... Maybe there is.   
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   > -K-   
   http://www.onelook.com/?loc=lemma&w=oxymoron   
   The closest word I can think of is oxymoron, conjoining contradictory   
   terms (as in "`deafening silence"). However, that doesn't quite   
   capture the concept.   
   http://www.onelook.com/?w=antiphrasis   
   Another possibility is antiphrasis, the use of a word in a sense   
   opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony).   
   Dan Dassow   
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