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<div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Dear Ken K. </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> The meaning, or 'category, of onomatopoeia is straight-forward -- sounding like the meaning - but the occurrences have interesting twists and flavors. </SPAN>Encarta lists ‘buzz’ as an example of onomatopoeia – imitating the sound of the action. On background, Shakespeare had coined the term ‘buzzer’ (noun form), but he’d used it to refer to people who were gossips (the Oxford American Dictionary attributing the root word to the Middle English term “busse” -- imitation – hence Shakespeare’s “imitators” or “copyers” of what they’d heard). But the suggestion (in Shakey’s use of the term -- assumably) refers not only to the literal meaning, but to the “buzz” that is created in the immediate environment of gossiping – akin to bees buzzing, or
muted, hushed whispers about “Did you hear about…”. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hamlet 4.5.89-95</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>…Her brother is in secret come from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>,</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feeds on his <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">wonder</I></B>, keeps himself in clouds,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And wants not <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">buzzers</I></B> to infect his ear</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With pestilent speeches of his father's death, </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wherein necessity, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">of matter
beggared</I></B>,</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Will nothing stick our person to arraign</I></B></FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In ear and ear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Signet)</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <BR>Others may have another angle on the "category" of onomatopoeia. </SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">Good luck, Scott Nelson</SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">** <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">wonder, keeps himself in clouds</I></B> = suspicion in clouds = i.e. in cloudy surmise and suspicion (rather than the light of fact) (Riverside)</FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">** <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">wants not buzzers</I></B> = does not lack talebearers (Signet) </FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">** <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">of matter beg</I></B></SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">gar'd </I></B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>= <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>destitute of facts (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City>)</FONT></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">** <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">buzzers</I></B> = whispering informers </FONT></div> <div class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">** <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Will nothing stick</I></B> will not hesitate (Signet)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR>** <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">nothing stick our person to arraign</I></B> = scruple not at all to charge me with</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the crimes (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City>) </SPAN></div><BR><BR><B><I>Kenneth Keyes <ken_keyes@sil.org></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dear all, <BR><BR>Does anyone have suggestions as to how to include information about<BR>onomatopoeitic words? What field should this go under? <BR><BR>Many Thanks in advance,<BR><BR>Ken Keyes <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Yahoo! Groups Links<BR><BR><*> To visit your group on the web, go to:<BR>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lexicographylist/<BR><BR><*> Your email
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