The Germans call this little bird roth Stert (red tail), but, like so many popular names, this is a misnomer, as, strictly speaking, the redstart is never red, though its salmon-orange markings often border on to orange-flame.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
It has often occurred to me that the terms "prejudice of race, of color," etc., were misnomers, and for this reason. As soon as I show that I have some good qualities, do some act of kindness in spite of insult, my color is forgotten and I am well treated. Again, I have observed that colored men of character and intellectual ability have been treated as men should be by all, whether friends or enemies; that is to say, no prejudice of color or race has ever been manifested.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
Their old and tried adherents, the friar among the foremost, flocked again round their forest-banner; and in merry Sherwood they long lived together, the lady still retaining her former name of Maid Marian, though the appellation was then as much a misnomer as that of Little John. THE END.英文原著 · 《Maid Marian》
The `elk' is a Ceylon blunder and a misnomer. The animal thus called is a `samber deer,' well known in India as the largest of all Asiatic deer.英文原著 · 《The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon》