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Personally, onomatopoeia became very easy to spell once I imagined it as
O no, 'mato! Poe-i-a
(has a hellomoto sort of ring to it; 'mato as in tomato, Poe as in Edgar Allen-)
The longest common word containing only four consonants.
--Will Shortz's intro to "Wordplay: A curious dictionary of language oddities" by Chris Cole.
If onomatopoeia is using words that imitate the sound they denote, then what is the word for words that make you look like the appearance they denote when you say them, e.g. moue, that special kind of disdainful French pout.
I love the sound of this word. It makes me think of a gangster talking to someone gagged and tied on the floor....."Whatsa matta with you a? ona mata pee-ya!
Okay, I know it's dumb, but it makes me chuckle every time I think about the word.
Greek catch-all for short stories about wayward pulses. Derived from the genre classic which begins: "On a mat a pea, a lentil and a foppish adzuki sat swigging rumble juice."
Also the name of a rather grisly Marvel Comics villain. His only utterances are onomatopoeias.
Try it sometime.
A friend in elementary school told me a way to remember how to spell this and I never forgot it:
O No Ma! Topo E-I-A!
haha