one-syllable words
one-syllable words
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Is it true that "strengthed" is the longest one-syllable word in English ?
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RE: one-syllable words
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Whether the word strenghted -which I've seen quite frequently used- is a barbarism or not I couldn't 'tell, but is strenghtened a monosyllable ?
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How can "squirreled" and "quarreled" possibly be considered as single syllable words? Admittedly the article does say that it is "arguable" if squirreled is one syllable. I would sure like to see that argument.
I suppose in some dialects it might come out as one ("squirled", "quarled") - a bit like the British surname and place name "Featherstonehaugh" which is actually pronounced "Fanshaw".
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Dr Michael F Platten
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Kansas City
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New Orleans: Nawlns
Louisville: Louvl
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The complete Oxford English Dictionary also indicates the existence of scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched.
The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote.
woodengineer
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(Yeah, I know you're kidding, but I'm a sucker for linguistbait.)
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p.s. "strengthed"???
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(I resisted the temptation to add that I've never heard it used either - my own ignorance shouldn't be a disqualifier, although its generally not a bad indicator!)
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"strengthed", be made strong; be fortified; have strength (to do sth.); ben
strengthed to pasture, of an animal: become mature enough to graze.
woodengineer