SIBILANT
SIBILANT
This is such a lovely word, almost onomatopoeic. I am too lazy to look it up but I think it was used to describe Passeltongue in the Harry Potter books. I have seen in almost exclusively used as an adjective for "whisper".
Re: SIBILANT
I associate this word with "susurrous", which I think is one of the most beautiful words in the English language. In my mind, sibilant is the more strident of the two words; I would not use "susurrous" to describe the spitting of an alarmed cat or the steam released from a steam engine.
I recommend that people notice the use of sibilant sounds in the lyrics of "The Music of the Night" from "Phantom of the Opera". It sounds like someone hushing or soothing another and creates an amazing hypnotic mood. What masterful lyrics!
I recommend that people notice the use of sibilant sounds in the lyrics of "The Music of the Night" from "Phantom of the Opera". It sounds like someone hushing or soothing another and creates an amazing hypnotic mood. What masterful lyrics!
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver Proverbs 25:11
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Re: SIBILANT
The sounds [s], [z], [sh], [zh], [ch] (= [tsh]) and [j] (= [dzh]) are sibilants or sibilant consonants. However, the word itself simply meaning "hissing". I'll do it.
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He done did it here.
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