Nor can I approve of the term employed by Torrend : onomatopoetic substantives. Substantives they are certainly not, as they pertain to none of the eight classes and have nothing of the nature of nouns. On the other hand, only a part of them are real onomatopoeiae, i. e. words resembling the sound made by the thing of which they are the names.
[…] they amused themselves by decorating the house with the bright curtainings that Annie had brought, and putting up shelves for a few pieces of china.
It is not easy to say what it is to misimagine another person. It is easier to give a useful description of some other kinds of misimagination.
