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What are your favorite oxymora (plural for oxymoron) ? I always found these pretty amusing and funny to hear. Let me start off:
Act naturally
Found missing
Good grief
Almost exactly
Living dead
Small crowd
Sweet sorrow
Clearly misunderstood
Pretty ugly
Working vacation
Exact estimate
Vancouver, BC's main newspaper is the Vancouver Sun. For anyone that is at all familiar with the climate of the Pacific Northwest, if that isn't an oxymoron, then I don't know what is!
"Oxymorons" and "oxymora" are both correct, according to my dictionary.
What is your dictionary? "Oxymora" is not an entry in the New Oxford American Dictionary. "Oxymora" would raise a few eyebrows in some circles, although they would be too polite to mention it.
What is your dictionary? "Oxymora" is not an entry in the New Oxford American Dictionary. "Oxymora" would raise a few eyebrows in some circles, although they would be too polite to mention it.
Merriam-Webster pluralizes oxymoron as oxymora. I think it's pedantic, but I'd bet that most regular posters in the Writing forum have been accused of pedantry at some point.
Merriam-Webster pluralizes oxymoron as oxymora. I think it's pedantic, but I'd bet that most regular posters in the Writing forum have been accused of pedantry at some point.
So are curricula, cacti, and fora, but they sure sound better than the alternatives.
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