9 September 2016

allonym

[al-uh-nim]

noun

1. the name of another person taken by an author as a pen name.
Compare pseudonym.
2. a work published under a name that is not that of the author.

Origin of allonym

1865-1870; all- + -onym; cf. pseudonym

Related forms

allonymous [uh-lon-uh-muh s], adjective
allonymously, adverb

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Examples

Some people believe that Shakespeare’s works were written by various authors who used his allonym.

(wordsmith.org)

‘Her name was Diane and I had known her intermittently for about a year. I had never flown with her, having met her in the Atlanta airport terminal, and she knew me under the alias Robert F. Conrad, a Pan-Am first officer, an allonym I used on occasion’.
Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding
Catch Me If You Can.
Random House, 2000

Anagram

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Today’s quote

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

– Leo Tolstoy

On this day

9 September 1543 – Mary Stuart crowned ‘Queen of Scots’. She was 9 months old.

9 September 1828 – birth of Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, (‘Anna Karenina‘, ‘War and Peace‘). Died 20 November 1910.

9 September 1890 – birth of Harlan Sanders who eventually becomes a Colonel and chickens throughout Kentucky, and ultimately the rest of the world, are never the same again as he invents Kentucky Fried Chicken. Died 16 December 1980.

9 September 2004 – Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, bombed. 10 people killed.