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missdaredevil
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 Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: two questions~ |
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Is there an adjective that souns like *bulgarious*?
Is there another name for *low-cut* shirts, something else that starts with low?
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CP
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: |
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If you can give us the sentence with "bulgarious" in it, we might be able to figure it out.
As for shirts / blouses that are low cut, I haven't heard of another "low-something" phrase that means the same thing. You could describe some shirts / blouses as low-slung, maybe. You don't mean low-priced, do you?
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| The first word that came to mind was gregarious (since it rhymes). How about vainglorious? But for a similar alliterative word, maybe beleaguered? |
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missdaredevil
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, Bob.
Gregarious is the word that I was looking for~
Btw, what is the difference between words that rhyme and the words that alliterate?
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They rhyme if they sound the same. They alliterate if they start with the same letter.
"She sells sea shells at the seashore" is alliterative (many words starting with "s") and rhyming ("sells" rhymes with "shells").
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:09 am Post subject: |
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| missdaredevil wrote: |
| Btw, what is the difference between words that rhyme and the words that alliterate? |
Alliteration is when the words have a similar consonant sound, usually but not always at the beginning of the word. You commonly find them in tongue-twisters.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
The bloviating Belarusian bureaucrat was beleaguered by boisterous Bulgarians bearing bludgeons.
(This has a B, B-L, B-R, or B-L-R alliteration.)
Rhymes have similar ending sounds.
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
They don't have to have the exact same sound if they are reasonably close and the words also have some similar alliteration or syllable pattern.
I once had a pet hippopotamus.
The situation was quite preposterous.
Its appetite was great,
It ate and ate.
Its gullet was truly bottomless. |
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