The word "alliteration" is correct and usable in written English.
Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds of words. For example, "Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
In short: deploy wit, not alliteration.
Her speeches consist of a mixture of robotic talking-points (the Republicans are guilty of "the politics of corruption") and clumsy alliteration (the Democrats are a "great collection of idealism, intellect and integrity").
In the spirit of alliteration, might I also suggest the "Jaguar of johns" and the "Lexus of loos"?Sanjiv Mehta Montreal* Letter appears online only.
Rimbaud's alliteration and delight in internal rhymes is sometimes lost in the English.
Not only does it annul the alliteration in "The Oracle of Omaha," but a sage is also of smaller stature.With his recent accession to the title of world's richest man, Mr Buffett deserves to be slighted by his British sobriquet no longer.
(So did Mr Safire; though asinine alliteration was best avoided, when pounding out the punditry he could rarely resist).
It is pointless to anticipate any meaningful "political debate and competition" to arise from the election.Paul Tighe DublinA splendid splenetic speechSIR – Your obituary of William Safire (October 3rd) mentioned his fondness for alliteration, such as "nattering nabobs of negativism", which he wrote for Spiro Agnew.
If the Texan's alliteration-loving publicists worked for the Democrats, Mr Gore's new programme would no doubt be dubbed "progressive pragmatism .Yet the vice-president's political schizophrenia seems to run deeper than normal.
Parallel constructions and alliterations appear in the text, which remains enigmatic.
Maybe Jane Austen kicked it off with her clever, cunning titles that pulled in the curious reader with their tongue-tripping alliterations.
Probably the oldest actual metre was that in which two half lines were linked by alliteration a system reminiscent of early Germanic verse.
