Lang- Reduplicated words
Mama, papa, night-night, bye-bye Music of the rhyming words Can can dancers at Moulin Rouge Words create the magic of language, and language whether we think, speak or write in it, is the most expressive form of communication. And they are all created by us humans. Yet sometimes we create words which might make the coming generations wonder what was that one ancestor thinking when he/she said or wrote that word even though it makes perfect sense now that it is a part of the lexicon. Instead of going on like a learned grammarian, I will just tell you the kind of words I am talking about. The examples are bye-bye, flip-flop, chit-chat, hoity-toity, knick-knack, lovey-dovey, riff-raff, topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie, tutti-frutti etc. and hundreds more. In our own mother tongues we use trailing words like chabi- wabi (in Hindi for key) , chabi- shabi (Punjabi), chabi- choobhi (Bangla) ,chai- wai (in Hindi for tea) , chah- shah (Punjabi), chitti-chitti or chinna-chinna (for...