Category talk:English reduplications
Category for rhyming phrases[edit]
This might be a sub-category, but I am wondering if we have (or could have) a category for phrases which, besides repeating aspects, actually rhyme?
For example the pair of words brain drain having a rhyming sound, but bric-a-brac does not.
For the most part I assume this will be the case when the ends of words are duplicated as opposed to the beginnings.
Does anyone know what a good term for that would be? I would like to make a subcategory and organize the things in this list which are semi-homonymous. Etym (talk) 01:50, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Missing Terms[edit]
plip-plop / plipity plopity (is a way to describe how something is going, presumably down, sort of means so-so) appears missing. It's related to splish-splash which is also missing. This is a colloquial English term. The former however is specific to the toilet bowl where as the latter may apply to interaction with any body of water.
why are rhymes listed as reduplication?[edit]
e.g. you've got to be in it to win it .... this isnt reduplication, its just a rhyming phrase. Should we change the dscription, or should these be moved into a different category? —Soap— 19:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC)