Yet more logorrhea. Regarding The Secret of -nym , having listed them alphabetically (by frequency is the default), I find four dupes - three noun/verb, one noun/comb. form. With the gentlest arm-twisting, I will type them out for the listless among us. Revised, smarter (it takes me a while) count: ...

Yow! That must have been it! I must have seen reruns some eight to ten years on. There were three admirals named Winslow, but all had passed away before the beginning of WWII. Regarding the not-so-good lady, I had thought of the surname in the sense of casting shadows on others, but the other seemed...

Thanks. Good word to know. Was my guess about the character of the good lady Umbridge at least close? Incidental-wise, the OED lists 50 -nym words! Mary Worth . . . a good lady. I don’t suppose you recall a very early TV show (presumably biographical), Admiral Winslow of the Navy . Been wondering ab...

Didn’t notice on first reading . . . Dolores means ‘sorrows’.
Seems to go with the surname. The character presumably is someone who always feels offense . . . ?

I had a wonderful high-school English teacher. Norma Tasman (I hope that will mean something to someone) told us that such an indicative was called a ‘ticket name’. It’s vaguely possible this was occasioned by the appearance of a singer called Buddy LaVoca in the soap-opera comic strip Mary Worth . ...

Somber, . . . ,sombrero, umbrage, umbrella, etc.

A modest individual, I entreat you to forgo
congratulations on my becoming the one to
complete the roster of English-speaking
persons cognizant of this relationship.
Thank you.

I knew there was a kind of opposite to ‘supermundane’, in the sense of ‘sounds good, is bad’. I give you superable.

This just in! Well, I thought of it a couple of days ago and it just struggled to the surface. Before they became something else (?), I had a Keogh Plan.

Great Bonaparte’s ghost!
Two more from French - Pinot, faux.
Mais c’est merveilleux, non?

Thanks. Sometimes I’m not quite thinking, and the first word or thought that comes to mind just roosts. “Your other right”. Yes, it’s been addressed to me. Not long ago, I bought a passenger- side windshield-wiper blade, when what I needed was . . . . But I think the down thing is also heard. Well, ...

Funny . . . I just came across a word for this (verb and noun) as an answer to a crossword clue. It’s uptalk . The OED has citations going back to 1996. Another pattern, although not annoying at all - sometimes I hear high school kids on the radio, obviously reading from a script. Very often they wi...

A curiosity:
supermundane, meaning quite the opposite of
‘very mundane’.

And see the edit to my previous.

The OED has nothing relevant for ‘oah’,
but a few possibilities - obsolete and
hence without pronunciation - for ‘ogh’.

And you might remember Zhou Enlai, although I’m not sure how the name was usually pronounced. Later that day . . . a little OED perusal reveals mantou (Steamed wheaten bread rolls, a staple food in northern China.) and ou (South African colloquial. A fellow, a chap, a guy.) Pronunciation . . . guess!

Excellent work, troops! Bibelot and whoa are entirely new to me in this endeavor. I had no idea doh predated The Simpsons , but I did have oh . I’d say pharaoh is acceptable, and -this also (the shame!) escaped me - we don’t need to go proper with Marlowe ; there’s jes’ plain owe . But - as that doo...