Today's Word "misnomer"
misnomer \mis-NO-muhr\ (noun) - 1 : The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment. 2 : Any misnaming of a person or thing; also, a wrong or inapplicable name or designation. "Deep Canyon was a misnomer. It wasn't deep and it wasn'ta canyon. It was a golf course and development of expensive homes that sat in a shallow trough..." -- Arthur Lyons, 'At the Hands of Another' Misnomer is from Medieval French mesnommer, "to misname," from mes-, "wrongly" + nommer, "to name," from Latin nominare, "to name," from nomen, "a name."
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