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Posted By: wwh tonitruous - 10/23/02 08:00 PM
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tonitruous

a. thundering. tonitruone, n. musical instrument imitating thunder.

Posted By: of troy thunderous - 10/23/02 08:16 PM
astonish too share the same root, tonare, latin, to thunder, originally, extonare (with the ex as an intensifier) altered through french and middle english into astonish.

Posted By: Wordwind Re: thunderous - 10/23/02 10:29 PM
In reply to:

musical instrument imitating thunder

Should we resuscitate the Foley Effects thread?

Posted By: wwh Re: thunderous - 10/23/02 10:47 PM
I still like "al capone" = machinegun obbligato to 1812 Overture.

Posted By: Wordwind Re: Al Capone - 10/23/02 11:01 PM
Cute!

But, really, the cannon is pretty astonishing in the first place in the 1812--a machine gun obligato would be nerve-wracking.

In checking the spelling of cannon here in MW, I read
that one of its definitions is that of the projecting piece from a bell:

can·on : the projecting part of a bell by which it is hung : EAR


Cool, huh?

Special note to Fiberbabe, if she should read here:

The word from which "ear" comes is an Old English word meaning "edge."

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