After our conversation about various names for a television remote control, a listener emailed to say that early remote controls produced an audible tone that activated the TV channel changer and volume, and whenever his dogs Lupe and Bubba stood up...
If you reeeeeeeeeally want to emphasize something in writing, you can engage in what linguists call expressive lengthening, or making a word longer by repeating letters. It’s an example of paralinguistic restitution — rendering in text...
dB race v. phr.— «We arrive in the lot of the Autoland Superstore in Niagara Falls yesterday afternoon, for a contest to see who has the loudest car stereo.…The dB race competitions are held all over the world, the international...
