• BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    According to MW online, alliteration is consecutive words beginning with the same (usually) consonant sounds.

    So by that definition, neither “happy hour”, nor OP’s very good attempt to fix it, “appy hour”, would count as alliteration.

    I always thought repeated words starting with the same vowel sounds would also count. It wouldn’t help in this case, though. But apparently repeating vowel sounds is called “assonance.”

    • drsilverworm@midwest.social
      3·
      3 days ago

      Repeating consonant sounds is called consonance. Along with assonance, both are the respective consonant and vowel types of alliteration.

    • Erusset@slrpnk.net
      31·
      3 days ago

      I write out the phrase Office Hours fairly regularly and although I know how to spell both words, the alliteration sound sometimes throws me off enough that I write Office Ours and then angrily correct it a second later.

      • umfk@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 days ago

        Wait… office and hour start with different sounds, there is no alliteration.