Monday, November 2, 2009

Beautiful Word Breakdown

Beautiful Word Breakdown
Step one: Write step-by-step instructions for how your word is spoken.
Step Two: Explain the origin of your word based on how each sound is made.
Step Three: Speak your word into a spectrometer and describe what the voice print of your word looks like.
Step Four: Look up and record the definition and etymology of your word.

Here is the breakdown for the word LOOM

Step one:
How to say LOOM.
1. Put tip of tongue on roof of mouth just behind the teeth and push air around tongue.
2. Form lips into a circle and expel air out.
3. Press lips together and vibrate air into nose.

Step two:
Loom was first spoken when people saw the moon in the sky and said "ooooo". Then they added the "m" sound because the site was so beautiful and delicious. Finally the dark liquid of the dark night sky moving around the white moon moved people to add the "l" sound at the beginning. of the word.

Step Three: This is what the voice print of "loom" looks like when recorded using the program "audacity":









Step Four: Etymology
verb 1 appear as a vague form, especially one that is threatening. 2 (of an event regarded as threatening) seem about to happen.

— ORIGIN probably from Low German or Dutch.

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