When is alliteration not alliteration?

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Inspired by a question on Pointless tonight!

They wanted contestants to name the stars with alliterative names who appeared in various films etc.

So one question was asking who played Juliet in Love Actually.

So is Keira Knightly truly alliterative if the K in Knightly is silent?

Wow mind blown...

For me alliteration only works verbally, all depends on the definition though... looks on oed

I'm too busy lolly-gagging around to look it up...

I say no, because alliteration is about sound:

"Alliteration is the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of an English language phrase." from Wikipedia

Hah!

I say No as well!

I agree, alliteration is about sound, not spelling. No alliteration for Keira Knightly, unless she pronounces her surname in a very unusual way.

Actually, I think Kuh-nightly sounds quite distinguished!

I had it as meaning the rhyming of consonants and assonance was the rhyming of vowels? No? So when Marmalade " sharted in Pilates", I admired the assonance of the soft "a"s in the title. I would say no to Kiera Knightly bring alliterative.

To be pedantic the round was "celebrities with double initial names" not alliterative names

Ah!
I have the excuse that I was eating cooking supper

But I definitely heard The Richard refer to alliterative names though...