![]() ![]() Syzygy – ‘The meaning and lack of vowels in this word makes it interesting’.Sesquipedalian – ‘It's wonderfully autological (describes itself), as it's a word of many syllables’.Its sound reminds me of an amusement arcade machine where you watch the mechanical hand hover over and dip into a pit of prizes.’ Serendipity – ‘It starts slowly, serenely, before its quick rhythmic up and down of ‘di-pit’, which resolves in the comfort and joy of ‘y’.Scandinavia – ‘A place-name that (to me at least) really conjures a sense of the place: mountains, water, snow, clear air’.Onomatopoeia - ‘It's appropriately pleasingly musical, almost as though the concept of onomatopoeia itself has a sound’.Metamorphosis – ‘I like the sound of the word and the idea of transformation, or reaching the final/ideal form’.Melancholy – ‘It sounds like a haunting beautiful sadness’.Meander – ‘the hard 'ee' meanders elegantly into the soft 'a' ’.It mimics the act of swaying a baby and also makes me think of libellule in French (dragonfly), which might be my favourite French word.’ Lullaby – ‘It sounds really calm and relaxing and, well, lulling.Lollipop – ‘It rolls around your mouth like a lollipop and the final 'p' has an almost silent, breathless syllable at the end of it’.Caesura – ‘It would make a badass superhero’s name: the sibilance is her rasp, the ae her sensitive side’.Here are just a few, along with our reasons: So with English Language Day on Friday, we thought we’d carry out a mini census of the BL’s favourite words. And in Georgian, they even have a word for it: ჟრუანტელი / z hruanteli, ‘a beautiful word that gives you goosebumps’. My favorite word at the time was onomatopoeia, and the boys got a big kick out of the pee sound in that.įinally he took his stance, wig-wagged his butt a bit, then weighed into the ball-a nice clean stroke, the solid thwock, if I maybe allowed just one little onomatopoeia.By Elliot Sinclair, Web Editor in the Content and Community Team. ![]() _de bric et de broc_, corresponding to our "by hook or by crook" or by reduplication fromĮncyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Still, there was time enough for them to shout out the sounds of letters in chorus everyday and to memorize the words " onomatopoeia" and "metaphor."īRIC À BRAC (a French word, formed by a kind of onomatopoeia, meaning a heterogeneous collection of odds and ends cf. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history The masthead is in a font that is made to look cracked, this links to the idea of onomatopoeia that 'kerrang' sounds like the crashing sound of a symbol, connoting again the style of music the magazine is based on.įlag is thought possibly to be an onomatopoeia, which is to say flap sounds a bit like a flag flapping. ![]() This morning it was Krumphau - the "Crooked Cut", though I like to imagine a certain onomatopoeia in the term. If the "pteetsee" part of that means bird or birds milk, I think it's a great bit of onomatopoeia, just like that the Chinese word for 'cat' sounds a lot like the noise a cat makes. Quick word otamotapea how to#I like the word onomatopoeia, and not just because I still remember how to spell it from third grade spelling classes. ![]()
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