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misnomers

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Wrong or misleading names. A misnomer is a label that does not fit what it names.

Detailed Definition
A misnomer is a term for something named inaccurately or misleadingly. Keats’s phrase suggests that love is surrounded by false labels and mistaken ideas, not by truth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Misnomers are incorrect or misleading names; “A thing of soft misnomers, so divine” suggests language disguising reality; Calling a prison a “correctional facility” can be a political misnomer; A poet may expose misnomers to question who gets to name bodies, places, or histories
Additional Notes
'Misnomers' is a specialized vocabulary word for incorrect naming, and the poem uses it in a way that may not be familiar to all readers.; Found in the poem, Modern Love by John Keats
Also Known As
false names erroneous titles mislabels
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