"The 'whiz'—or is it the 'whoosh,' or maybe 'sh-sh-sh-sh-sh'?—of an ace
being served is described … by rival tennis players in the opening
moments of Anna Ziegler's 'The Last Match.' The speakers concede,
though, that an onomatopoeia doesn't do the job of explaining
what it's like to have a meteoric ball hurtling past your ears,
shattering your hopes if not the sound barrier."
— Ben Brantley, The New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
"[James] Chapman pointed out that what looks like variation in onomatopoeia is sometimes simply a rearranging of discrete sounds: clap clap in English becomes plec plec in Portuguese."
— Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2015
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