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CHIP SNADDON was born in Estcourt (KZN) in 1964 and went to Hilton College where he matriculated in 1982. But it would be in Cape Town where he'd cut his…>

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Chipping Away at the Constitution

Onomatopoeia:
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An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (About this sound pronunciation) - from the Greek words  for "name" and "I make",  adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic" - is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar" or "chirp". Onomatopoeias are not the same across all languages; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of; hence the sound of a clock may be tick tock in English, or katchin katchin in Japanese.