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Re: OXYMORON



At 09:39 AM 9/30/01 -0400, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

By a stretch of imagination the word OXYMORON can be
said to be an oxymoron (oxy being "keen or sharp" in Greek).

No stretching required.
The word means "clever foolishness".
By definition. By construction.

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