After a lot of research into wordplay and realizing the incredible broad topic that it covers, I thought it best to narrow my thesis a bit. I will be focusing on "-nym's". I will be looking at 5 different "-nym" categories, responding to these through design.
1. homonyms (sounds the same, but are spelled differently. have different meanings)
2. antonyms (either of a pair of words that have opposite meanings)
3. synonyms (one of two words that have the same meaning)
4. bacronyms (the reverse of producing an acronym; taking a word which already exists and creating a phrase using the letters of the word as initials)
5. oronyms (a string of words which is homophonic with another string of words)
two other possible topics:
1. heteronyms (one of two words that have the same spelling, but different meaning, and sometimes different pronunciation too)
2. autoantonyms (a word that can take two opposite meanings)
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