"Spoken" for in "Spokane"

       Sometimes writers choose a word influenced by another word "in the neighborhood."  This can be to good effect or, more often than not, lazy and mindless word choice.  I have called it the "echoic" effect.

       Fortunately in the instance of Picture Legends Writer Abbe Pascal's description of a photograph, she has a winner in beginning this way:

           "Frost crystals spangle leaves in Spokane, Washington."

You can see and hear the echo in the words "spangle" and "Spokane."  It's the [sp] and the [an] in both words. 

       My point is "spangle" is musical with "Spokane" whether consciously chosen or not, but may have been unconsciously selected from a multitude of possibilities due to the anticipated sound of the city name just ahead!  And "spangle" fits the photo perfectly.

Portion of Charles Gurche's Photograph.  Click on it to enlarge.

(From the Dec. 1st through 7th page of the National Geographic Society's 2014 engagement calendar Beautiful Landscapes.)