Untz or oonce reprsents the thump of a dance beat; wub gives dubstep’s wobbling bass a little mouth-made machinery. Modern onomatopoeia—sound-imitating words from the era of computers, electronic music, and ray guns—also includes beep for a computer...
If we’re talking about the whole lot of something, we call it the whole kit and kaboodle. But what’s a kaboodle? In Dutch, a “kit en boedel” refer to a house and everything in it. For the sake of the English idiom, we just slapped the “k” in front...
