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• Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Question by Minute Maid Man: Is there a term for constantly misnaming people and/or objects?
Recently, I couldn’t think of the term “sleeping bag” and called it a “bed bag”. I also called a plate a “food holder”. As for people, my friend Joe I will very often call “John”, or sometimes by the completely wrong name, like “Mark”. Is there any term for this consistence of calling everything by the wrong name?

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Answer by ♂ ♫ Timberwolf
Senility

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3 Responses

  1. 1
    Cynthia LY 

    misname – To call by a wrong name. Chronically mislable, miscall, misidentify

    http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/misname
    http://www.yourdictionary.com/misname

  2. 2
    Peter H 

    Verbal memory loss

  3. 3
    honky275 

    malapropism –

    the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

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