Re: pens (was Phoneme winnowing continues)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 8, 2003, 1:22 |
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Stone Gordonssen wrote:
> Hmm, there is a type of vocalic rhyme, though the name long escapes me.
> "Ben" and "bin" serve just as well for the issue since I pronounce "Ben"
> [bEn].
Assonance is just vowels. Alliteration is just consonants. (Neither have
the same strict rules as rhyming though, so 'black ban' could be said to
be both alliterating and assonating[1] though it does neither[2] as well
as 'big book' alliterates or 'big kipper' assonates.)
[1]: I think I've just borrowed a word from Latin.
[2]: In your dialect it may assonate perfectly. It doesn't it mine. But
it does, whereas 'dad' and 'bad' don't even rhyme in mine.
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Tristan <kesuari@...>
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