... mutter, crash
and
dash
). Especially,
murmur
and
mutter
ranked
in the top five ofthewritten corpus. They frequently occur as verbs and are often
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d. The fidging Prentices, their elbows claws.
e. ... onomatopoeic words in written English.
Chapter 6 will compare the characteristics ofthe most frequent and most
onomatopoeic words in spokenandwritten corpus, in order to examine whether there
are any ... Noises ofthe hammering of rivets, andthe dumping down of huge sheets of
metal.
e. The flattering of court parasites.
f. With a flickering of mellowed sunlight comes over the eyes.
g. Like the...