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  2. Reduplication - Wikipedia

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    These words include not only onomatopoeia, but also words intended to invoke non-auditory senses or psychological states, such as きらきら kirakira (sparkling or shining). By one count, approximately 43% of Japanese mimetic words are formed by full reduplication, [ 46 ] [ 47 ] and many others are formed by partial reduplication, as in ...

  3. Shm-reduplication - Wikipedia

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    However, if the second word has more syllables than the first, the second word is often reduplicated instead (Led Zeppelin Led Shmeppelin). Shm-reduplication is generally avoided or altered with words that already begin with shm-; for instance, schmuck does not yield the expected "schmuck shmuck", but rather total avoidance or mutation of the ...

  4. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    In an amphibrachic pair, each word is an amphibrach and has the second syllable stressed and the first and third syllables unstressed. attainder, remainder; autumnal, columnal; concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish

  5. Rhyming dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another. They also typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well.

  6. List of reduplicated place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived.. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia, Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.

  7. Vietnamese morphology - Wikipedia

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    Most words are created by either compounding or reduplicative derivation. Affixation is a relatively minor derivational process. Older styles of Vietnamese writing wrote polysyllabic words with hyphens separating the syllables, as in cào-cào "grasshopper", sinh-vật-học "biology", or cà-phê "coffee".

  8. Words are overrated. Here’s why we’re addicted to ‘silent ...

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    The lack of spoken words in a silent review, which requires an audience to infer whether a reviewer likes a product or not, may seem silly. However, the same kind of nonverbal communication occurs ...

  9. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    A kind of rhyme in which the spellings of paired words appear to match but without true correspondence in pronunciation; e.g. "dive/give", "said/maid", "bear/dear". Some were originally true rhymes but have become eye rhymes through changes in pronunciation; these are sometimes called historical rhymes. [35