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- single word requests - Verb for the act of making a Tch sound . . .
This has been bothering me (a native English speaker) for a long time It seems almost impossible outside of dialogue to describe the act of unconsciously spitting out a quot;Tch! quot; in respons
- Why do we write Tsk for the sound of disapproval?
The Full OED has this for their 1947 "first citation": L Pike Phonemics ii 41 1 Do you get a sound resembling the noise of commiseration which is sometimes written in literature as ‘tsk-tsk’, or ‘tut-tut’ Fairly obviously the implication is that it was well-established by then Personally, I doubt the writer would have been particularly thinking of cartoons as "literature", and I
- Is there a WORD For: sound made by mouth to express demeaning annoyance . . .
The sound made by pushing middle tongue against palate, tip of tongue bent downward and pushed up against upper teeth and sucking in air sharply w mouth open, chin drops and holds for an instant A
- Word for sound made by tongue and teeth
Is the sound made just at one side of the mouth? In the situation you describe I would make a 'click' or 'pop' sound by placing the flat of my tongue against the roof of my mouth such that it creates a seal, then (forgive me for this description, I'm sure linguists have words for these actions) pulling down with the centre of the tongue while keeping the edges sealed, so that you create a
- How did the silent t come into all these tch words?
It seems to me that the 'tch' behaves in English spelling the way a doubled consonant would, and the 'ch' the way a single consonant would That is, 'tch' is more likely to occur after short vowels, so you see patch, botch, and crutch, but beach, roach, and pooch
- Why is karma a bitch? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Also used as the rhetorical question Ain't karma a bitch? Synonyms: What goes around, comes around Getting his just desserts He had it coming and strongly related to Payback's a bitch It is likely a mix of having bad Karma and the idiom Payback's a bitch, where Payback is performed by someone wronged by the now punished person, but Karma just happened to the person for some seemingly righteous
- phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What's that sound called which we make when we are irritated or disgusted, when we press both our lips together and make a sucking sound, with our teeth closed It's similar to a kissing sound, but
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
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