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Words resemble the objects that they represent. True False

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Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.

When they do, we call that "onomatopeia".

But most often they don't. For example, "strawberry" is much too big a word
for that tiny red fruit. It should be called a "pleep".

And "sun" is much too small a word for that huge hot yellow thing in the sky.
That should be called a "fuuuarrmmhh".

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