"Sally sells seashells by the seashore, but if Sally sells seashells by the seashore, should she sell science shells by the science shore?"
I grew up being told she does, so I have to believe it's so. I just don't know which seashore.
When Suzy sold seashells by the seashore, she was short-changing her sales potential. She should have sold seashells far from the seashore- somewhere that would show how special they really are. The seashore was littered with seaweed today.
Sally was selling seashells by the seashore when you can just pick them up, because she would have a monopoly of all the seashells if she collected all the seashells on that particular seashore, and therefore could sell sea shells by the sea shore. The answer above is a good one, but I have always wondered why she wouldn't take the shells farther inland, so people wouldn't ask the question you asked. Because she sucks at business.
"Suzy sells seashells at the seashore" is an example of alliteration because it repeats the 's' sound at the beginning of multiple words in a sentence. Onomatopoeia refers to words that imitate the sound they represent, such as "buzz" or "meow".
Terry Sullivan's 1908 tongue twister, "She sells seashells," according to P. J. McCartney in Henry de la Beche (1978), is based on Mary Anning's life as a English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologistShe sells seashells on the seashoreThe shells she sells are seashells, I'm sureSo if she sells seashells on the seashoreThen I'm sure she sells seashore shells.There is no mention of how many shells "she" sells. If we wanted, we could make up a suitable line, such as:She sells seventy shells to see at the seashore;She sells her seventy seashore shells from the sea.
seashells, rocks, sand, water
Sure! "She sells seashells by the seashore" became "She sold seashells by the seashore."
Tongue-twister
Susie sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
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"Susie saw seashells at the seashore" is an example of an alliteration, specifically sibilance. It is both, actually. The s and sh and z sounds are alliterative, but also evocotive of the sounds that you would hear at the beach.