Feb. 5th, 2006

cosmic_llin: (scully writing)
Rich 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...

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