Often it stems from his words, which, as in a misspelled grocery sign or an onomatopoeic utterance, appear both everyday and incorrect. |
Children's writers make use of onomatopoeic and phonaesthetic words to good effect. |
He is the most onomatopoeic of the leading poets, able to imitate the sounds of everything from bird calls to the eerie noise of cracking ice. |
But here more than anywhere I remember lost times, lost chances, lost friends, with the sweet tristesse that is onomatopoeic to the place. |
In the silent film, allied to the onomatopoeic imitation of sound was the expectation of sound where there was none. |
Quite often, the text is a succession of onomatopoeic words, and gives the impression that the boula's base rhythm is being repeated. |