Other languages have their own ways of representing sounds in the world. Here are 12 wonderfully evocative onomatopoeias from around the world. Where we would use "chugga chugga choo choo ...

Snap! Crackle! Pop! Some words sound like what they mean. The Greeks had a word for it, onomatopoeia. Roughly translated, this witty word means: "I say a sound." The most common kind of ...

Puri-puri describes that feeling of snapping into a fresh shrimp or a plump hot dog. Bursting with juiciness and bounce, puri-puri evokes the springiness and slight resistance of collagen—which ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Hebrew is full of onomatopoeias. Funny, expressive words that sound the same as the thing they describe or the sound associated with that thing.

Fry's English Delight, Series 9, The Story of Oh! Dave Gibbons and Stephen Fry discuss the use of text in graphic novels.

LAist couldn't apply the brakes to the comments section on this post about a San Diego man's runaway Prius. SFist waited in line to visit the SF Underground Market. Bostonist spent the week ...