Comments on: Onomatopoeia (it is not something to eat)

By: kirsty

kirsty — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:00:16 +0000

kapow! =)

By: Writing About English : Sharon Hurley Hall

Writing About English : Sharon Hurley Hall — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:54:21 +0000

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By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:21:24 +0000

This is fun, isn’t it?

Thanks for the info about Japanese and Chinese, Alex. It’s yet another way in which they are very different from Western languages.

@Deborah: I’ve never heard a screech owl, and I’m not sure I’d want to, now

@grumpyoneuk: Yes, that’s a great phrase.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:23:15 +0000

(For some reason this email did not land in my inbox until 9:11 this morning—Sat. March15.)

I’d like to add screech, thump, and boing, which my spell checker dislikes. How do cartoonists spell check their work

Also: the first time I heard a screech owl, it was on a clear, cold winter night when I was taking trash out to the bin. The bird was in a tree some 50 yards away from me, but the sound was so horrifying that I almost fell down. “Screech” doesn’t come close to describing it.

By: grumpyoneuk

grumpyoneuk — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:57:23 +0000

My favourite onomatopoeia example is the phrase “the murmuring of innumerable bees”…