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===Same-sounding phrases=== During the 1980s, an attempt was made to promote a distinctive term for same-sounding multiple words or phrases, by referring to them as "oronyms",{{efn| The name ''oronym'' was first proposed and advocated by [[Gyles Brandreth]] in his book ''The Joy of Lex'' (1980), and such use was also accepted in the [[BBC]] programme ''Never Mind the Full Stops'', which featured Brandreth as a guest. }} but since the term [[Toponymy#Toponymic typology|oronym]] was already well established in [[linguistics]] as an [[Onomastics|onomastic]] designation for a class of [[Toponymy|toponymic]] features (names of mountains, hills, etc.),{{sfn|Room|1996|p=75}} the alternative use of the same term was not well-accepted in scholarly literature.{{sfn|Stewart|2015|p=91, 237}}
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