Monday, 25 April 2016

Is there a word or phrase for when you break a word in a different place to give a different meaning?

I'm thinking similar to a compound word, but you could break the word at a different or multiple places.



Granted I cannot think of a real-world example, but I have included two situations where this has happened.



If I had a domain name that was photospork.com, this could be interpreted as:



  • photo + spork, a gallery of a cutlery collector's obsession with sporks, or

  • photos + pork, a culinary site dedicated to showing users the best cuts of pork.

Another example is when I named a work project toolscore, which can again be represented as either:



  • tools + core, to represent the core component of the tools, or

  • tool + score, to show the highest score reached using that tool.

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