Inspirations: The Wordsmith
There is no synonym for synonym. That was the thought that started it all. There was an antonym for synonym: antonym. There was an antonym for antonym: synonym. But no synonym for synonym. It seemed like a terrible oversight. And it's just a word. Someone made up synonym, antonym, and homonym. Why did they stop there? A quick aside. I have some very vivid memories of my childhood. Just flashes. Most of them are of me being annoyed. I don't know why memories of being annoyed are so special: I am easily annoyed. I remember being very young, and the teacher was giving us our English lesson. Telling us that from now on, we were going to call words that sound alike "homonyms". We were going to call opposite words, "antonyms" and we were going to call words that mean the same as each other, "synonyms". I remember being annoyed because to me it didn't seem like antonym was a particularly more difficult word th...