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*feels stupid*
What is an oxymoron?

I'm not english but you probaly
already saw that on my typo's



An "oxymoron" is when you use (typically) two words with opposite or incongruous meanings to emphasise one of them by contradiction.

Hmm. That probably doesn't explain it much better

Hang on...

Google has some links to examples: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oi=defmore&q=define:Oxymoron

Don't feel stupid, the english language has lots of words invented or borrowed just to confuse Johnny Foreigner, a hang-up from our Imperial past.

Hell, even we native english speakers can't agree on the spelling or meanings of words.