The word “synonym” shows up in print about 18 times more often than the word “homonym,” according to Google’s Ngram Viewer. It’s nearly 13 times more popular than “antonym,” even though “antonym” ...
FUN WITH HOMONYMS….Matt Yglesias, whose homonym misspellings are indeed legendary, offers up this explanation: I think you’ll see if you look around that a large portion of my generation (i.e., those ...