Citations:phantonym

The info below is transwikied from phantonym, which is now a Wiktionary redirect:


 * in his 2009 article for the NY Times […] An example of phantonym usage noted in the article was when  said, "I just want to make sure that we're having an honest debate and presenting to the American people a fulsome accounting of what is going on in this program," where he meant "full" instead of "fulsome".
 * Phantonyms are usually commonly confused words.
 * […] in 2006, author Kit Whitfield used it […] she described it as "The feeling you get when you're searching for the perfect word: that there's a perfect word for this concept that's not in the thesaurus, but you can't quite remember it...and you're forced to go with a slightly wrong word."