Word Routes
Exploring the pathways of our lexicon
By the Light of the Moonmoon: The Joy of ReduplicationWed Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018By Mark Peters
These days we need all the levity, lunar or otherwise, that we can get. This lexical lunacy is a flimsy excuse for me to write about my favorite type of word: the reduplication. From ack-ack to zip-zap, reduplicative words are silly, childish, catchy, animalistic, nonsensical, and awesome.
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