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11-30-2009, 09:32 AM
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onomatopoeia - the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitationof the sound associated with it, (ie buzz, hiss)
No, I didn't learn it in English class - my mother taught it to me as part of a cheer they used at her high school in the thirties!
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