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Old 06-11-2014, 09:09 PM   #3121 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by blackcherry20 View Post
Alliteration is awesome.

al·lit·er·a·tion [uh-lit-uh-rey-shuhn] Show IPA
noun
1.
the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration) as in each to all. Compare consonance ( def 4a ) .
2.
the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid.
Origin:
1650–60; < Medieval Latin alliterātiōn-, stem of alliterātiō, equivalent to al- al- + literātiō, modeled after obliterātiō obliteration but intended to convey a derivative of littera letter

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Thank you for the elucidation. I am not, however, unfamiliar with the word "alliteration".
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