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Saxophone is just as unexpected, other -phone musical terms, like vibraphone, idiophone, membranophone, come with a prefix unrelated to people. Sadism and maso
by thih9 3y ago
Saxophone is just as unexpected, other -phone musical terms, like vibraphone, idiophone, membranophone, come with a prefix unrelated to people.
Sadism and masochism - perhaps less unexpected, but no less than shrapnel IMO.
- defrost 3y agoSantorum literally screams eponymous neologism.
- mkl 3y agoVibra-, idio-, membrano-, aero-, etc. are existing or obvious prefixes. Sax- is not. All I can think of is Saxon, but saxophones are pretty recent, so that doesn't match. Sousaphone is another -phone that's pretty obviously named after a person. Less well known but still pretty obvious are rothphone, heckelphone, sarrusophone, sudrophone.
- pradn 3y agoAll my life, I thought "sadism" had to do with the word "sad"!