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• The E-Sylum: Volume 9, Number 40, October 1, 2006, Article 14
  

  CANADIAN $2 POLAR BEAR COIN NAME PROPOSED: BOONIK
  

  Dick Johnson writes: "Canada is looking for a name for their new
  $2 coin with a polar bear on the reverse.
  

  They call their dollar coin a "loonie" for the loon bird portrayed.
  That was an excellent example of onomatopoeia, a figure of speech.
  (Boy, did I have to look up that word!)
  

  Shifting figures of speech their new $2 coin introduced ten years
  ago is called a "toonie." That figure of speech is assonance, the
  repetition of vowel sounds.
  

  Can any of our Canadian readers tell me what they are calling their
  $5 coin? In E-Sylum (vol 9, no 35, article 14) I suggested a "foonie"
  for five plus the continuation of the vowel sounds.
  

  Their new polar bear is a $2 "toonie" but to name the bear "boonie,"
  doesn't seem appropriate. Why not add a little Eskimoish and name
  it a "boonik."
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v09n40a14.html

Data di pubblicazione

• 2006-10-01

Volume

• 9

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