Showing posts with label onomatopoeia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label onomatopoeia. Show all posts

Friday, 16 March 2012

The word 'plash'

really pisses me off.

It's just 'splash', isn't it, with a silent S tacked on, to make it seem more onomatopoetical.

Auden, Heaney, Foulds... this is your gypsy's warning.