Sound words

[skip.knox]

Here's a somewhat exotic web site that's gone into my bookmarks list.

Onomatopoeia Dictionary - Written Sound

It's a catalog of onomatopoeia, very handy for things like words that describe animal sounds (which is how I found it). To accompany, of course, be sure to find a corresponding YouTube clip of the actual animal making the actual sound.

#ILovetheInternet

 

[Nimue]

As soon as I got to the five most common spellings of "argh", I knew this was going to be a great link.

Edit: Oh my god, and then I got to "badonkadonk". It's an onomatopoeia

 

[Reilith]

As someone who has second to none experience with onomatopoeia in English, this will come in handy soon. Thank you!

 

[Tom]

Onomatopoeia is one of my favorite linguistic phenomenons. I just think it's so funny that someone was like, "Hey, we don't have a name for this sound! But it's such a distinctive sound that we don't even have to think of a name for it--we can call it what it sounds like!" The creative genius of humanity at its best. (And I say that in all sincerity.)