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  2. Onomatopoeia - Wikipedia

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    An onomatopoeic effect can also be produced in a phrase or word string with the help of alliteration and consonance alone, without using any onomatopoeic words. The most famous example is the phrase "furrow followed free" in Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner .

  3. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  4. Ideophone - Wikipedia

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    The word ideophone was coined in 1935 by Clement Martyn Doke, who defined it in his Bantu Linguistic Terminology as follows. [5]A vivid representation of an idea in sound. A word, often onomatopoeic, which describes a predicate, qualificative or adverb in respect to manner, color, sound, smell, action, state or intensit

  5. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic. List of animal sounds. Picture

  6. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    boh 啵 (This word is a modern creation) [citation needed] Croatian: ha ha, he he, hi hi: cmok: Czech: ha ha, cha cha [xa xa], chi chi [xi xi] Danish: ha ha, hi hi ...

  7. Japanese sound symbolism - Wikipedia

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    For example, the nasal sound [n] gives a more personal and speaker-oriented impression than the velars [k] and [ɡ]; this contrast can be easily noticed in pairs of synonyms such as node (ので) and kara (から) which both mean because, but with the first being perceived as more subjective. This relationship can be correlated with phenomimes ...

  8. Internet slang - Wikipedia

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    Onomatopoeic or stylized spellings: Onomatopoeic spellings have also become popularized on the Internet. One well-known example is "hahaha" to indicate laughter. Onomatopoeic spellings are very language specific. For instance, in Spanish, laughter is spelled as "jajaja" instead because J is pronounced as /h/ (like English "h" in "hahaha") in ...

  9. Palindrome - Wikipedia

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    The longest single-word palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 12-letter onomatopoeic word tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The Guinness Book of Records gives the title to the 11-letter detartrated , the preterite and past participle of detartrate , a chemical term ...