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Why we say "tick tock" instead of "tock tick" and words are ordered that way
- hammock 3y agoSee also: ping pong, intro outro, be bim bop…
- skulk 3y agoFor those who don't want to watch a video, the term to google is "ablaut reduplication"
- racional 3y agoA forward-mouth vowel followed by a rear-mouth vowel. So you catch the latter on the downstroke. Makes sense.. Unfortunately the video is way too long, and barely seems to get to the meat of the topic. In fact we'd have to say - it dilly-dallies.
- simonblack 3y agoWe have to have some rules, otherwise people will just use words nilly-willy.