Whatzat mean? Word origins.

homoe · 02-19-2018, 09:37 AM

mondegreen
A word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung An excellent example of this is phrases in songs! "My Eyes Adored You" could become "Sweet Eyes Of Georgia" The old Beatles song "Day Tripper" could become "State Trooper" etc etc ...

cathexis · 02-19-2018, 04:27 PM

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mondegreen
A word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung An excellent example of this is phrases in songs! "My Eyes Adored You" could become "Sweet Eyes Of Georgia" The old Beatles song "Day Tripper" could become "State Trooper" etc etc ...

and.... Your word is _______?

Gemme · 02-19-2018, 07:24 PM

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mondegreen
A word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung An excellent example of this is phrases in songs! "My Eyes Adored You" could become "Sweet Eyes Of Georgia" The old Beatles song "Day Tripper" could become "State Trooper" etc etc ...

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and.... Your word is _______?

mondegreen

Not sure what the question is for?

homoe · 02-20-2018, 01:39 AM

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and.... Your word is _______?

You don't post a word in THIS thread, that's in "Word Of The Day" thread.

homoe · 02-20-2018, 11:14 AM

onomatopoeia

Boom! Bang! Crash! When a word is formed from the sound that an associated thing makes, it's an example of onomatopoeia.

In Greek, onomatopoeia (on-uh-mah-tuh-PEE-ah) simply means "word-making," but in English it refers to a very specific process of word-making: an attempt to capture the sound of something. Examples of onomatopoeia in English include burble, buzz, slosh, ratatat, and thud. Words created by onomatopoeia can seem totally natural, but they can be surprisingly different from language to language.

Gemme · 02-20-2018, 11:20 AM

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onomatopoeia

Boom! Bang! Crash! When a word is formed from the sound that an associated thing makes, it's an example of onomatopoeia.

In Greek, onomatopoeia (on-uh-mah-tuh-PEE-ah) simply means "word-making," but in English it refers to a very specific process of word-making: an attempt to capture the sound of something. Examples of onomatopoeia in English include burble, buzz, slosh, ratatat, and thud. Words created by onomatopoeia can seem totally natural, but they can be surprisingly different from language to language.

This is one of my favorite words of all time!

homoe · 02-21-2018, 04:46 PM

interlocutor........

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation.

Interlocutor derives from the Latin interloqui, meaning "to speak between". Interloqui, in turn, ultimately comes from the words inter-, "between," and loqui, "to speak." Some other words that English borrowed from loqui are loquacious "talkative", circumlocution essentially, "talking around a subject", ventriloquism "talking in such a way that one's voice seems to come from someone or something else", eloquent "capable of fluent or vivid speech, and grandiloquence "extravagant or pompous speech".

homoe · 02-21-2018, 08:20 PM

heliocentric.........

Having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.

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02-20-2018, 11:14 AM	#5
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02-21-2018, 04:46 PM	#7
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02-21-2018, 08:20 PM	#8
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