Threee things

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Yesterday, I fought the honeysuckle in the garden. I'm not sure who won.


I didn't comment on this suggesting the OP looked up nitrogen triiodide.
Well, they had anonymous posting disabled and I don't want to be sued by irate parents.

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flemmings linked to this.which really amused me despite never having come across "little bunny Foo Foo". It helped that I was already thinking about alliteration.
Since I seem to be trying to fill LJ with feeds of linguistic sites, I was reading David Crystal and came across this:

 "Few people, I think, would view a sequence such as 'Peter the philosopher saw a ptarmigan' as alliterative."

It brought me up short, because I've forgotten what a strange reading technique I have. Of course it's alliterative. I don't sub-vocalise unless I make a conscious effort to, so much word play based on sound goes right over my head.
I wonder how it affects the works I like to read. Euphonious language  - good grief, I can spell euphonious first go - will not mean much; ideas will; phonetic misspelling or mis-used homophones will really throw me.
Too much for Sunday morning. Might return to the theme.

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[flemmings.livejournal.com]

How nice to not sub-vocalise. I can't stop, and consequently read at a snail's pace and get really thrown by unintended rhymes and so on.