{"id":22293,"date":"2022-06-30T12:47:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22293"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:47:50","slug":"pseudonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22293","title":{"rendered":"Pseudonyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>pseudonym<\/strong> [\u02c8s(j)u\u02d0.d\u0259(\u028a).n\u026am \/ \u02c8su.d\u0259.n\u026am] is a false or fictitious name, especially one used by an author. It comes from the Ancient Greek words <em>\u03c8\u03b5\u03c5\u03b4\u03ae\u03c2<\/em> [pseu\u032f.d\u025b\u030c\u02d0s] (false, lying, untrue) and <em>\u1f44\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1<\/em> [\u00f3.ny.ma] (name) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pseudonym#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/pseudonym.jpg\" alt=\"Pseudonym\" width=\"624\" height=\"315\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hyponyms<\/strong>* include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stage name (<em>used by actors<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>pen name, pen-name, nom de plume (<em>used by writers<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>nom de guerre (<em>used by military types<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>allonym = another person&#8217;s actual name adopted as a pseudonym<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/hyponym\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ananym<\/strong> = a pseudonym derived by spelling one&#8217;s name backwards<\/li>\n<li><strong>anonym<\/strong> = an anonymous person, or an assumed or false name<\/li>\n<li><strong>cryptonym<\/strong> = a secret name, or code name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An <strong>antonym<\/strong> of pseudonym is <strong>alethonym<\/strong>, which is the true name of an individual. From the Ancient Greek <em>\u1f00\u03bb\u03ae\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1<\/em> [a\u02c8li.\u03b8i.a] (truth) and <em>\u1f44\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1<\/em>  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/alethonym#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired to write about <strong>pseudonyms<\/strong> today after seeing this joke on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI used to go out with a girl called Sue Denim, until I found out that it wasn&#8217;t her real name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It took me a while to get the joke, as I actually know someone called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therealsuedenim.co.uk\/\">Sue Denim<\/a>, a singer-songwriter who was part of the band <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robots_in_Disguise\">Robots in Disguise<\/a>. I always thought it was her real name, but now I realise that it&#8217;s actually an onomatopoeic pseudonym.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a pseudonym \/ nom de plume \/ stage name? If not, what pseudonym might you use?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the usernames I use online are kind of pseudonyms: Omniglot, Omniglossia and Ieithgi. Some variations of my name that I use, or friends use, include Sai, Simi and Saimundo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pseudonym [\u02c8s(j)u\u02d0.d\u0259(\u028a).n\u026am \/ \u02c8su.d\u0259.n\u026am] is a false or fictitious name, especially one used by an author. It comes from the Ancient Greek words \u03c8\u03b5\u03c5\u03b4\u03ae\u03c2 [pseu\u032f.d\u025b\u030c\u02d0s] (false, lying, untrue) and \u1f44\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1 [\u00f3.ny.ma] (name) [source]. Hyponyms* include: stage name (used by actors) pen name, pen-name, nom de plume (used by writers) nom de guerre (used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22301,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions\/22301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}