As the word 'Oxymoron' itself suggests, there is nothing usual about it. First it takes a word and then combines it with its contradictory cousin to form an Oxymoron.
In your school days, you must have heard your teacher saying, your hair are little big. Now, that's was an early exposure to the world of oxymorons but little I knew that these weird combination of opposite meaning words had a world of their own.
\Let's look at few of the commonly used oxymorons in our lives. Some are oxymoron by birth such as "There is abundant poverty in this country". Each word in this combination conveys contradictory meanings.
However, there are some oxymorons which joined this sect due to reasons other than their actual meaning being opposite to each other. Let's take a look at few such oxymorons. "This airline's food is horrible" , here, airline and food are not contrasting words but it has earned its oxymoron's status through years of consistently bad food served on flights.
A recent oxymoron that I heard on air was when a TV news anchor questioned his correspondent - "Are these rumours accurate". A new one that I can call my own invention is, "Indians and Pakistanis are living in Nuclear Peace".
As an amateur expert on this subject, I would now start to close this topic of oxymorons. In my future posts, I will try to explore a little more on various other funny aspects of this language. I expect you to forgive the shallow depth of my American English.
In your school days, you must have heard your teacher saying, your hair are little big. Now, that's was an early exposure to the world of oxymorons but little I knew that these weird combination of opposite meaning words had a world of their own.
\Let's look at few of the commonly used oxymorons in our lives. Some are oxymoron by birth such as "There is abundant poverty in this country". Each word in this combination conveys contradictory meanings.
However, there are some oxymorons which joined this sect due to reasons other than their actual meaning being opposite to each other. Let's take a look at few such oxymorons. "This airline's food is horrible" , here, airline and food are not contrasting words but it has earned its oxymoron's status through years of consistently bad food served on flights.
A recent oxymoron that I heard on air was when a TV news anchor questioned his correspondent - "Are these rumours accurate". A new one that I can call my own invention is, "Indians and Pakistanis are living in Nuclear Peace".
As an amateur expert on this subject, I would now start to close this topic of oxymorons. In my future posts, I will try to explore a little more on various other funny aspects of this language. I expect you to forgive the shallow depth of my American English.
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