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Feb. 5th, 2006 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmic_llinRich and I were talking about onomatopoeia.
He reckons that the word 'bowl' is onomatopoeic, because the rounded vowel suggests the roundness of a bowl, but I said that it isn't because a bowl doesn't actually make the sound 'bowl'.
Am I right? Is there another word for when words suggest a quality like that? I feel like I should know this...
He reckons that the word 'bowl' is onomatopoeic, because the rounded vowel suggests the roundness of a bowl, but I said that it isn't because a bowl doesn't actually make the sound 'bowl'.
Am I right? Is there another word for when words suggest a quality like that? I feel like I should know this...
