That is where the word is the sound? Like the old Batman cartoons? BAM, SMACK, BOOM!
Gonna Google after I click to post.
Correct. It is basically a word that describes a sound and when spoken aloud sounds like the sound it describes. For example, hiss. The word hiss describes a sound, but when you say the word it actually sounds like you are hissing.
When did you guys learn this. How have I gone through my life never seeing or hearing the word and yet my 7 year old knows it.
For me, it is one of those strange things that have stuck with me. I likely first learned it in grade school and I just like the way the word onomatopoeia sounds so it has just stuck with me. I likely couldn't tell you half of what I was taught in grade school, but I remember what this is.
Correct. It is basically a word that describes a sound and when spoken aloud sounds like the sound it describes. For example, hiss. The word hiss describes a sound, but when you say the word it actually sounds like you are hissing.
It's interesting that man from Paris and man from London will not use the same word to describe the sound of cats/dogs, and animals in those cities sound the same.
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It's interesting that man from Paris and man from London will not use the same word to describe the sound of cats/dogs, and animals in those cities sound the same.
It is interesting. When I think of the word hiss, I think of cats hissing. A lof of people, however, would think of snakes.
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