Tautophony

"A regard for harmony requires us, in the progre of a sentence, to avoid repeating a sound by employing the same word more than once, or using, in contiguous words, similar combinations of letters. This fault is known as tautology ."—Dr. G. P. Quackenbos, "Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric," p. 300. Dr. Quackenbos is in error. The repetition of the same sense is tautology, and the repetition of the same sound , or, as Dr. Quackenbos has it, "the repeating of a sound by employing the same word more than once, or by using in contiguous words similar combinations of letters," is tautophony . Teach. To impart knowledge, to inform, to instruct; as, " Teach me how to do it"; " Teach me to swim"; "He taught me to write." The uncultured often misuse learn for teach . See Learn .