| Children's writers make use of onomatopoeic and phonaesthetic words to good effect. |
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| Often it stems from his words, which, as in a misspelled grocery sign or an onomatopoeic utterance, appear both everyday and incorrect. |
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| But here more than anywhere I remember lost times, lost chances, lost friends, with the sweet tristesse that is onomatopoeic to the place. |
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| In the silent film, allied to the onomatopoeic imitation of sound was the expectation of sound where there was none. |
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| He is the most onomatopoeic of the leading poets, able to imitate the sounds of everything from bird calls to the eerie noise of cracking ice. |
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| Quite often, the text is a succession of onomatopoeic words, and gives the impression that the boula's base rhythm is being repeated. |
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| Pokkuri is an onomatopoeic word for a sudden bursting, while a tera or dera is a Buddhist temple. |
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| The onomatopoeic tune that resulted was hilarious, but the implication that in a digital universe all correspondences are known in advance was rather disturbing. |
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| Cough, pronounced coff, is onomatopoeic in origin, from the sound of the closure of the glottis plus the sound of air whizzing or wheezing through the trachea. |
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| After the source of each sound is introduced, the onomatopoeic sounds are repeated in a refrain. |
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| Puu Puu is an invented onomatopoeic term that conforms to Kaurna phonotactics. |
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| What are called onomatopoeic words have some similarity in shape through different languages: French coucou, English cuckoo, and German Kuckuck directly mimic the call of the bird. |
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| Scat, also called Scat Singing, in music, jazz vocal style using emotive, onomatopoeic, and nonsense syllables instead of words in solo improvisations on a melody. |
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| Traditional bird names are often based on detailed knowledge of the behaviour, with many names being onomatopoeic, many still in use. |
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| Onomatopoeic interjections listed in the dictionary are allowed in Scrabble and now players can add exclamations such as augh, blech, eew, grr, waah and yeesh to their game. |
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