Another Visit To Nymville

Antonyms, demonyms, acronyms. Why am I obsessed with all these -nym words?


Because gematria is the magical meshing marriage of numbers and words. Since the math is mostly simple addition and this number pattern recognition thing isn't math at all, most of the problems are on the linguistic end. Nyms are by definition words. Today's culprits are NUMERONYMS.


And what is a Numeronym? Is nym also a Spanish language number and numero nym is somewhere down the chain of command far below numero uno? No, by definition a numeronym is a word that is derived at least in part by inclusion of a number.


Before the examples I'll let you think about it. By definition. As in, like, numeronym is found in a dictionary and not something I just made up. It's a word. You do numerology on WORDS. And the words have numbers in them. How do you handle doing numerology on numbers? Probably just do what you always do. Just handle it whatever works best for your forced narrative.


007. As soon as those digits most everyone instantly associates that with James Bond. MST3K. Maybe used in the traditional way that numeronyms were first formed, laziness to abbreviate. Probably like 007 it's now part of pop culture because the types of people that watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies think it's cool to call the show that. K9. Phonetically sounds like a dog, canine. Police partnered with their loyal, drug sniffing dog are commonly called K9 units. I don't know anybody that calls it the Year 2000 problem/bug-always Y2k. As for abbreviations, numeronym itself is called n7m. Starts with n, ends with m and 7 intervening letters. Look up P45 and you'll understand why abbreviations are used. Unless, I suppose, you're a doctor or trivia fan.


I first wondered about this when checking on bogus phrases in the gematriacalculator database. The habit of spelling 'to see' as 2C. The two was ignored since the calculator only recognizes letters. But is this the right way to handle it? Should it be spelled out? What about 2001: A Space Odyssey? Is the numerology on only 'A Space Odyssey' or with the 2001 spelled out 'two thousand one' or 'two thousand and one' like the movie title is commonly pronounced? What do the self proclaimed astute researchers document about this?


No surprise that I've found nothing. Yesterday when I saw the blog post about the basketball video game with 2k17 in the title I thought I might have an answer. Nothing. No numerology on the game title.


Gematrinator has some nice databases. Although I wish that the cities were arranged by alphabetical order. It appears to be sorted by population. But the time numerology shows what I expect to be the generally expected format for times like 12:01 (which is one of my favorite movies). It's s 'twelve oh one' not 'twelve zero one'. Nice to have it documented ahead of time. So let's see some rules in place ahead of time.


(I don't mind seeing numerology done on 'twelve oh one.' You've already imbued the language to be coded with numbers in virtually every word. This just cranks up the unbelievability. Imagine the Numerology Infinitely Magical Hit Squad coordinating their watches.)


Numero Uno: Alright mates, set your watches to midnight on my mark, three, two, one...
Bob: Uh, is that 3-2-1 or three-two-one?
NU: Fuck off wanker! It's a fucking digital watch. Oh crikey! We were supposed to kill Erin Moran at 12:01 now we have to wait an hour!
Bob: An hour? Don't you mean a day?
NU: Time zones, Bob. 1:01 is close enough.
Bob: Good point.
NU: Of course it's a good point, that's why I'm Numero Uno. You're just a flunky, not 007.
Bob: Is that 007, zero zero seven or double oh seven?
<BANG!> (shoots Bob)
NU: What a senseless waste of human life.


Of course, these details are laid out in the movie The Secret of NIMH. Ian Fleming's spy novel about Numerology Infinitely Magical Hitman Golgo 13/Thirteen.


Numeronyms. Yet another nym that they never thought about when making outrageous claims about the English Language. Some freemason somewhere foresaw that computers would exist and that the word Y2k would actually be acknowledged as a word as it is. Because that makes all kinds of fucking sense.