• 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?
Best answer:
Answer by ♂ ♫ Timberwolf
Senility
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misname – To call by a wrong name. Chronically mislable, miscall, misidentify
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/misname
http://www.yourdictionary.com/misname
Verbal memory loss
malapropism –
the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar