Fun with Words: Reduplication
Credit to the Phrase Finder website for much of the information on this topic. I love words, and one of the great joys of maintaining this blog is getting to learn about, think about, and write about them. I find particular (and perhaps unusual) joy in learning the names of various wordy phenomena. For example, I’ve written previously about feghoots, eggcorns, mondegreens, …
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Good writing is more than technically sound writing, isn’t it? Don’t words sometimes strike you as much for how they sound as what they mean?
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