Letter: Names of names

From Steve Shrewsbury

In response to Feedback’s penultimate paragraph on names of names (16 April), I suggest metanym or nymonym. You could ask readers for a better metanym, but you’d risk verse and adverse response.

For your penpenultimate paragraph on polyrepetitive words, (was that a deliberate placing of the paragraph?) I offer nymonym again (is that too close to be a Fishbein coincidence?

And the nonaming refuseniks? There’s antinymonymer and her rabid brother who is antinymonymiac. And monikerer’s oppo antimonikerer who is of course a polyrepetitive nymonym (not Fishbein – too adjacent). Which leads to a polyrepetitive word for a polyrepetitive category of names: polynymopolynym?

All from 2 paragraphs. Is that positive feedback?

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK