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Re: pens (was Phoneme winnowing continues)

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Sunday, June 8, 2003, 1:22
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. -- Tristan <kesuari@...>

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