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Ooh and aah aren't words, they're sounds (onomatopoeia). A sound is just a sequence of letters used for their phonological values. You can spell the sound "ah"
by zarzavat 9mo ago
Ooh and aah aren't words, they're sounds (onomatopoeia). A sound is just a sequence of letters used for their phonological values.
You can spell the sound "ah" however you like: ah, ahh, aah, aahh, there's no wrong way to spell it.
If you write "the washing machine tringged when it finished", 'tring' is not a word, even though it's following the rules of English morphology, you could have written any sequence of letters that most faithfully reproduces the sound of the washing machine. You could have written katrigged or puh-tringged.
- thaumasiotes 9mo agoThat is false; the fact that you can conjugate aah (or tring) into the past tense is sufficient to prove it's a word.
- paulcole 9mo agoOoh and aah most certainly are words. Is meow not a word? Can I spell it miough and sit smugly correct?
- housecarpenter 9mo agoIt's true that onomatopoeia isn't always a word, but in the particular case of "aah", I think that particular choice of letters is conventionalized enough that it is a word.
- seanhunter 9mo agoThe oxford english dictionary disagrees with you. https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=ooh https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=ooh "Ooh" is most certainly a word. As is both "Ah" and "Aah" https://www.oed.com/dictionary/ah_int?tab=factsheet#8068455 https://www.oed.com/dictionary/ah_int?tab=factsheet#8068455 https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=aah https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=aah