Alliteration
Alliteration can be Astonishing, Amazing amusing, and is used in advertising.
Yes, alliteration is repetition of the first letter of a word, usually a consonant but we have just proved that you can create alliteration with vowels.
You see it all around you every day. You probably pass some every time you go shopping
ALLITERATION IN ADVERTISING
Kit Kat.
The simplest products have no more than two words. In the cassse of Kit-Kat, only two syllables.
I shall give you some suggestions and ideas for alliteration games shortly, but first may I share with you a story of my first attempts at alliteration.
ALLITERATION FOR PRODUCTS
I started my career in writing as a copywriter in an advertising agency. As a junior I used to enter competitions to name chocolate bars for clients. I would spend every evening for a week, looking up words with the same letter, matching adjectives to nouns, and finding synonyms. I would submit one to five pages of suggestions. Most of my combinations were two words starting with the same first letter.
The client got their moneysworth of many ideas to choose from. I won a bottle of Champagne on several occasions not because my idea was chosen but as a reward for my effort. That enabled the account executive to show the client a stack of pages of ideas, proving how many hours of effort had been spent on the project which justified the amount the client was charged.
But allitertion is not the monopoly of advertisers. Allitertion is also useful to authors, in modern speeches and classical books. I used to be impressed by aliteration used by authors. As a child and teenager I had no idea how they achieved it. I thought they were superhuman.
When I created alliteration, it took me hours. I did not realise that authors were simply very hard working. Let's look at some more alliteration you might know.
ALLITERATION IN BOOKS
Do you remember Famous Five books by Enid Blyton? She wrote more than a dozen books about the boys and girls.
Five get into a Fix.
Five to go Finniston Farm.
Five Go Adventuring Again
She also wrotte about the Secret Seven. Alliterative titles included Cliff Castle. The Hidey-Hole.
Movie Stars
Amber Alert
Baby Boy
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Black Beauty
North by North West.
Australian Flag.
Place Names
Bang Bang
Singapore flag.
Finally, Speech Titles
How to be happy in - where? How to be happy in Hawaii. How to be happy at home. How to stay happy on holiday. How to have a happy marriage.
Quiz On Alliterative Books
Name five books with alliterative titles
1
2
3
4
5
Here are some hints on alliterative book titles
B B
F F
P and P
Q Q
S S
S and S
Sources
I have a forthcoming e-book on alliteration, full of amusing titles and games for adults, children and parties and education and business brainstorming.
About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I caption my photos with alliteration. For example, Big Butterfly.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am Immediate Past President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting on Zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the third Saturday afternoon and occasionally on other Wednesdays our workshops are on app learncool.sg
Incoming president Faith from July 1st 2020 could change dates and platforms so please contact the club.
learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember:
tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
For language lovers:Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_place_names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_Australian_place_names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_New_Zealand_place_names
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
I hope you will buy my books.
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/angela-lansbury/quick-quotations/paperback/product-21259011.html
Alliteration can be Astonishing, Amazing amusing, and is used in advertising.
Yes, alliteration is repetition of the first letter of a word, usually a consonant but we have just proved that you can create alliteration with vowels.
You see it all around you every day. You probably pass some every time you go shopping
ALLITERATION IN ADVERTISING
Kit Kat.
Shop display of Kit-Kat
I shall give you some suggestions and ideas for alliteration games shortly, but first may I share with you a story of my first attempts at alliteration.
ALLITERATION FOR PRODUCTS
I started my career in writing as a copywriter in an advertising agency. As a junior I used to enter competitions to name chocolate bars for clients. I would spend every evening for a week, looking up words with the same letter, matching adjectives to nouns, and finding synonyms. I would submit one to five pages of suggestions. Most of my combinations were two words starting with the same first letter.
The client got their moneysworth of many ideas to choose from. I won a bottle of Champagne on several occasions not because my idea was chosen but as a reward for my effort. That enabled the account executive to show the client a stack of pages of ideas, proving how many hours of effort had been spent on the project which justified the amount the client was charged.
But allitertion is not the monopoly of advertisers. Allitertion is also useful to authors, in modern speeches and classical books. I used to be impressed by aliteration used by authors. As a child and teenager I had no idea how they achieved it. I thought they were superhuman.
When I created alliteration, it took me hours. I did not realise that authors were simply very hard working. Let's look at some more alliteration you might know.
ALLITERATION IN BOOKS
Do you remember Famous Five books by Enid Blyton? She wrote more than a dozen books about the boys and girls.
Five get into a Fix.
Five to go Finniston Farm.
Five Go Adventuring Again
Five go to Mystery Moor.
She also wrotte about the Secret Seven. Alliterative titles included Cliff Castle. The Hidey-Hole.
She was inspired by Seckford Hall in Suffolk, now alliteratively renamed Seckford Hall Hotel and Spa.
ALLITERATION IN BOOK TITLES
Adult books also have alliterative titles. Jane Austen had at least two. Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility.
ALLITERATION IN BOOK TITLES
Adult books also have alliterative titles. Jane Austen had at least two. Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility.
Ironically, whilst sentences in books have grown shorter, some book titles have got longer. From modern times, and fact rahter than fiction, we have the best selling book, Feel the Fear - but do it anyway. Really the strong part of the title is Feel the fear, three words, the and an alliteration.
Enid Blyton wrote up to 50 books a year and was very successful. Yet she missed out on renaming herself alliteratively.
Over in America the movie moguls (there's another aliteration) chose alliterative film titles as well as alliterative names for their big billing stars.
Movie Stars
You have probably heard of
Marilyn Monroe.
She was born Norma Jean.
Now, how can you use alliteration? When you are introducing people at an event.
Introductions to speakers
It might be just a broup of friends, a small dinner party. It could be something bigger, businesslike, a 100th birthday party, an anniversary dinner, an annual business dinner, an online meeting when you are the M.C. (master of ceremnies) known in Toastmasters International speakers' club as Toastmasters of the day, which wording applies 24 hours, or a grand wedding.
Introductions to speakers
It might be just a broup of friends, a small dinner party. It could be something bigger, businesslike, a 100th birthday party, an anniversary dinner, an annual business dinner, an online meeting when you are the M.C. (master of ceremnies) known in Toastmasters International speakers' club as Toastmasters of the day, which wording applies 24 hours, or a grand wedding.
Alliterative Names For Introductions
Albert is amazing.
Brian has a birthday.
Casey is capable and confident, and correct.
Cindy is a smooth, soothing speaker.
David is from Delhi, a diver, deadly. A
dreamer.
Evelyn is easy-going.
Fiona is funny and friendly.
Gea is gracious.
Harry is happy and healthy.
Isobel is interesting.
Jeffrey is generous.
Kapil from Kerala.
Louis,
Marvellous Mohammed.
Nora is ...
Oliver from Australia.
Penny, not just a pretty face, a
perfectionist, impeccably dressed. Believes in practices.
Queenie is quick-witted.
Roberta is realistic.
Samantha from Singapore. Likes the South.
Shona shares, but is shy, maybe has a
shocking secret.
Tony is terrific.
Unwin is unexpected.
Victor is victorious.
Wendy is well-prepared. Willie is
wonderful.
Creating Film and Book Titles
A simple way to create film titles is by repeating on word or phrase. The simplest one is north, east, south or west.
Alliterative Place Names
America has some places with odd names.
Pee Pee township in Ohio.
NORTH WEST
The North evokes images of numbing cold. The South sounds steamy hot and sultry. The East sounds exotic and erotic. The West sounds wonderfully rich, even if it's the Wild West.
I wrote a book called Quick Quotations. (Self published through Lulu.com. I had ten books published by regular pulishers such as barrie & Jenkins and Ward Lock. later I discovered print on demand and self published ten more. When I have mastered e-book pubishing, I hope to match Enid Blyton's book a week.)
Add a place name to a person's name, or a person's name to a place name. William in the Wild West. The Wild West And William's Hotel.
Film Titles
Alliteration Game For Guests
After you run out of idea, ask people to give themselves alliterative titles. That way you cannot offend anybody. People are more interested in themselves than anybody else. I tried asking people to create alliterations on other people's names at Agora speakers, then to make alliterations using their own names at Singapore online and it proved very popular.
Creating Film and Book Titles
A simple way to create film titles is by repeating on word or phrase. The simplest one is north, east, south or west.
Alliterative Place Names
America has some places with odd names.
Pee Pee township in Ohio.
NORTH WEST
The North evokes images of numbing cold. The South sounds steamy hot and sultry. The East sounds exotic and erotic. The West sounds wonderfully rich, even if it's the Wild West.
I wrote a book called Quick Quotations. (Self published through Lulu.com. I had ten books published by regular pulishers such as barrie & Jenkins and Ward Lock. later I discovered print on demand and self published ten more. When I have mastered e-book pubishing, I hope to match Enid Blyton's book a week.)
Add a place name to a person's name, or a person's name to a place name. William in the Wild West. The Wild West And William's Hotel.
The title of your book of your travels, or your blog post, can be rewritten for effect. If I don't see my blog posts reaching sufficient numbers, I rewrite the titles.
Amber Alert
Baby Boy
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Black Beauty
North by North West.
Australian Flag.
Place Names
Alliteration is such fun. Let’s take Alliterative
Australian place names. I love the list. Should I begin with Beggan Beggan in
New South Wales? Remember, I began with Beggan Beggan.
Bang Bang
My favourites are Bang Bang, and Booti
Booti. Bang Bang. What are you thinking, boys and girls? Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang! Start a business, Bang Bang motor cars from Bang Bang.
Buy some booty in Booti Booti. Better
still, A beauty from Booti Booti. Or for a beauty contest, the beauty from
Booti Booti.
Some of these place names are a double
delight, a triple delight. The short one or two syllable names fit in
alliteration at the start, rhyme at the end - and repetition.
Brit Brit, sounds amusing. If I went there
I could say, 'I am a Brit - from Brit Brit.'
Budgee Budgee.
A place to sell pets. You could open: The
Budgee Budgee pet store.
Then there's Dum Dum. Let’s avoid negative
thoughts about two too dumb non intellectuals or dumb unable to speak. Think
positively about Dumbells in Dum Dum. Alternatively rhyme with rum in Dum Dum
or widen the appeal with a run in Dum Dum, and match the double with a Run Run
in Dum Dum.
And Durren Durren. Not a place to live if
your name is Darren. Imagine the conversation in the pub:
‘G’day. Hello, my name is Darren. I'm from
Durren, Durren.’
‘Sure you are. Have another drink, mate.’
Next up: Nap Nap.
Take a nap in Nap Nap. Gil Gil. Go with
Gill to Gil Gil.
Gin Gin. Ah, where’s a bar with gin in Gin
Gin.
Gol Gol. Golly, this is Gol Gol.
Gong Gong. I’m going to gong gong. Going
going, Gone in Gong Gong.
What can we say about Greg Greg?
‘I am Greg, from Greg Greg.’
‘Have some more grog, Greg from Greg Greg.’
Guda Guda, that must be a good place. Who
could resist The Guda Guda guest house. I wonder if they have one.
Then theres Jil Jil in Victoria. A place to
live if your name is Jill.
‘I am Jill, from Jil Jil.’
‘Sorry – say that again.
‘How long have you had this problem. You
should join Toastmasters.’
Then there's Jim Jim Falls. Does he really?
Jim from Jim Jim, falls.
What about Ma, from Ma Ma Creek? Now ma is
getting older, she creaks a bit.
Mia Mia, in Victoria. Mama Mia, it’s Mia
from Mia Mia. A good place for an Italian restaurant.
Or take a picture of Mia Mia to decorate an
Italian restaurant anywhere.
You could even run a trail from one
amusingly names place with signposts to another. But would locals be grateful?
Not necessarily. But some New Zealanders are campaigning against airports and
motorways and bringing in tourists to spoil their peace and quiet backwaters.
Some people in Wanaka, an hour from Queenstown So, forget tourism and articles
on tourism. Think about amusing speeches,
Articles on language, businesses borrowing
the name online or seeking inspiration for a new name,
I’ll be back in a min min.
Moona Moona creek. and Mona Mona Mission.
Mooney Mooney. mooning or money. Mori Morri. and Nap Nap Marra.
Will you nap in Nap Nap Marra today or
tomorrow?
What about Wat Wat. In Victoria. Or will
you go to Will Will Rook, in Victoria. Or, maybe you would prefer Wood Wood,
spelled w o o d,in the city of Swan Hill.
And Woy Woy, aboriginal for deep water or
lagoon. And Wyn Wyn, a win win situation, spelled with a y. And Yabba
Yabba and Yagga Yagga. Plenty of fine names.
Easier for me than place names in
Singapore, like Dhoby Ghaut, Tan Kah Key, and Chong Pang, not to be confused
with Cheng San.
The Australians have a place called Wool
Wool. You can’t pull the wool over my eyes. But with Wool Wool over both eyes,
I don’t stand a chance.
Finally, you can yo yo between Yo Yo and
other cities. It is spelled Yeo Yeo but pronounced Yo Yo. That's all right
then.
European Alliterative Names
Europe has a sprinkling of alliterative place names. Germany can boast of Baden-Baden.
Spain has Torres Torres. Torres means Tower.
European Alliterative Names
Europe has a sprinkling of alliterative place names. Germany can boast of Baden-Baden.
Spain has Torres Torres. Torres means Tower.
Alliterative Personal Names
Singapore flag.
Back in Singapore I have a friend called Mi
Mi.
I remember our first conversation.
I asked, ‘Who's that?’
She replied, ‘It’s Mi Mi.’
‘Yes, but who are you?’
‘I'm Mi Mi. my name, spelled M I M I.’
Another repeating name is the Chinese (Mandarin) name Shan Shan, meaning mountain mountain, or mountains.
Another repeating name is the Chinese (Mandarin) name Shan Shan, meaning mountain mountain, or mountains.
Finally, Speech Titles
How to be happy in - where? How to be happy in Hawaii. How to be happy at home. How to stay happy on holiday. How to have a happy marriage.
Quiz On Alliterative Books
Name five books with alliterative titles
1
2
3
4
5
Here are some hints on alliterative book titles
B B
F F
P and P
Q Q
S S
S and S
Sources
I have a forthcoming e-book on alliteration, full of amusing titles and games for adults, children and parties and education and business brainstorming.
About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I caption my photos with alliteration. For example, Big Butterfly.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am Immediate Past President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting on Zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the third Saturday afternoon and occasionally on other Wednesdays our workshops are on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember:
For language lovers:Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
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