Many Nigerians will not forget in a hurry, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, an erstwhile bombastic and magniloquent member of the House of Assembly who enjoys spewing out verbalism with a locomotive concatenation at the expense of the comprehension of his fellow lawmakers and the generality of Nigerians.

As a well-read legal luminary and experienced parliamentarian, he claims that there was no deliberate attempt to confuse or obfuscate his audience in a state of hugger-mugger; but as an omnivorous, elliptical and a polyvalent reader, he has taken it upon himself to know the meaning of every word he comes across asserting that those words spew out of him like the rattle of the gun, and this, he claimed, was beyond his control. He was popular for the use of crinkum-crankum among many other grandiloquent words characteristic of him.

There is a sense of humour in almost every language in the world and English is no exception. There are some words in English that are onomatopoeic; their meanings can be deduced from their sounds. Some other English words are plain amusing in the way they are constructed. The structure of Freezes and Reduplications, in all their types and forms, apparently evoke some sense of humour. While some of these words are not completely onomatopoeic, some are; like pitter-patter and ‘teeny-weeny’, etc. See more examples of ablaut reduplications like: chit-chat, criss-cross, ding-dong, jibber-jabber, knick-knack, splish-splash, zig-zag, flimflam, etc. in this post. Check out

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