Timeline for Is there a term for referring to an organization by its city rather than by its name?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 27, 2011 at 9:55 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | So is “pars pro toto” a synonym for synecdoche? My teachers at school could never agree, and the remark in the Wikipedia article is completely unintelligible to me. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 22:43 | comment | added | MrHen | @Iceman: They are pretty interchangeable. If you were to make a distinction, the distinction would be what is in my answer. The definition for synecdoche does seem to include either pattern so... it is very possible Wikipedia is just being incorrectly pedantic on one specific page. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 21:58 | comment | added | Kevin | The people making the case for synecdoche are arguing the opposite, that the company headquarters is part of the associated town. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 17:46 | history | answered | MrHen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |