Ethiopian Fossil Finds Elucidate Elephant EvolutionDEC 04 2003
Ethiopian Fossil Finds Elucidate Elephant Evolution. It's double alliteration day at Scientific American
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39 04 200312:39PM
From what I can find online, alliteration applies to repeated sounds at the beginnings of words in a phrase and consonance refers to repeated sounds in the middle or at the end of words in a phrase. Vowels vs. consonants doesn't appear to have any bearing on the matter.
19 04 2003 3:19PM
ok, you're right. i'm a jerk. i heard that blowhard david lawrence say this on his radio show and i took his word as gospel. my mistake. last time i ever do that.
08 04 200310:08PM
The article headline isn't entirely accurate. Its the report that points to the evolution of the various species of elephant and the possible reasons for their extinction, not the fossils themselves.
31 04 200310:31PM
But Dan, that doesn't alliterate...
33 07 2003 2:33AM
It's usually consonants--the definition they taught us in high school was "repetition of initial consonant sounds." Really it's the sound that matters more than the letter (so "university" and "you" would alliterate, for example).
Bonus fact: if you want to, you can use the stressed syllable rather than the first syllable, so "boot" and "about" alliterate.
Uh, anyway...
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Joey Grammar15 04 200311:15AM
alliteration is only for vowels; fossil finds is considered consonance