Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Dictionary: AALII and ZZZ

The AALII is a tropical tree, according to The Dictionary. And unlike the AAL that I could never find, when I did an image search on the AALII, I got a whole page of photos.

Do a search on Wikipedie, though, and you get "redirected" to:
Dodonaea viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, that has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia.
That's a flaw with Wikipedia, not necessarily with the AALII. If one of their editors is going to "redirect" a page, he or she should make sure that the page to which you've been redirected actually mentions your original search item! Okay, let's move on to ZZZ.
An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (from the Greek ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "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". 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, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese.

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