Category talk:English onomatopoeias

Proposition to consider adding edit

My ears and experience (and a bit of education many decades ago) tell me the following might be considered onomatopoeic. I am not a native English speaker, so I propose here for consideration.

S edit

  • sneer possibly, or probably;
  • sneeze definitly
  • sob - also fits to one of sound patterns expressing/accompanying sorrow, desperation...

W edit

  • wail, and
  • whimper both fit to sounds that are part of expressing particular emotions (sorrow, pain, desperation etc.); I could also observe sounds like that with some species of animals (mamalia) under stress.
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