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Onomastics: EVOC - R BREV - Y GREP - G GOOG - G PRON - Y SPEL - Y VERB - R Nominology: EVOC - Y BREV - Y GREP - G GOOG - G PRON - G SPEL - Y VERB
by mattcwilson 12y ago
Onomastics:
EVOC - R
BREV - Y
GREP - G
GOOG - G
PRON - Y
SPEL - Y
VERB - R
Nominology:
EVOC - Y
BREV - Y
GREP - G
GOOG - G
PRON - G
SPEL - Y
VERB - Y (nominologize?)
Seems like nominology wins on at least a couple nominological categories. :)
- dreeves 12y agoHa, nice! I mean, "onomastics" really should win simply for already being the established term. But if one were picking the name from scratch then I'd say "nominology" has probably... * greater evocativity (at least for us philistines) * nearly equal brevity (same number of chars, one more syllable) * equal greppability and googlability * greater spellability, maybe (again, at least for us philistines) * equal pronouncability * equal verbability (nominologize/onomasticize, nominological/onomastic, nominologist/onomastician) Of course "nominology" mixes Greek and Latin roots so that's presumably fingernails on a blackboard for more educated folk than me. Cf http://messymatters.com/nominology/#comment-530036107 http://messymatters.com/nominology/#comment-530036107