Years ago, a friend told me about a time he took his family on a beach vacation. On the first night, his 6-year-old son asked his dad something like this: "Who's going to turn off the waves so they ...

Confused by the oddly-spelled word? Here's the definition of onomatopoeia. We are unknowingly using onomatopoeia within our everyday conversations. You may use them to describe noises that your pets ...

Boom! Clang! Splat! English is full of onomatopoeia — words that sound like the noises things make. But the words don't reproduce those noises exactly. They are language-conditioned versions of those ...