One Syllable

[pixie373]

Can you name a 9 letter word with one syllable?

[DTCwordfan]

and that probably sounds like Jayne when on a trip to Switzerland......

[pixie373]

Ha, dt! Thanks marval. Will have a look at that x

[DaisyNonna]

screeched

[pixie373]

Stretched

[DTCwordfan]

Yes and I bet you are stretched when you say, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" - and "Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh."

[pixie373]

Lol! That's where the "screeched" came in too. (not sure about the "squirrelled")

[DTCwordfan]

from one mucky writer to another, screeched he, tongue in cheek.

[pixie373]

Which cheek? ;-)

[DTCwordfan]

squirreled - where the nuts went.

[pixie373]

Lol!

[Peter Pedant]

This comes up in Linguistics. somewhere, the s-t-r bit reminded me

Arabic goes around in open syllables CV - consonant-vowel
or closed syllables CVC - consonant-vowel-consonant

and Cleopatra ( sudduv coptic ) sounds so odd that they reverse two letters ( metathesis ) to make sound more natural to them, kilopatra.

Russian, I think has the most in a basic syllable CCCCvCCCC
I think - anyway think lots of consonants and one vowel.

and of course one intellect said there are some words in WNglish on this basis ( think squirrelled etc ) - altho the one they gave in the book was

fixed-string - as in fixed-string violin ( are there any as in do they exist ?) but I couldnt work out if they thought people really did say

fi-ck-st-str-ing - lots of consonants banging together there

or to rhyme with "thick string"- which I would kinda say coz I am lazy

which has fewer consonants knicking on each other

Just thought I would share......

we had a polish colleague who said yes my name is "Przemek" and it is pronounced as it is spelt.

we could neva do it.

[pixie373]

Probably have to learn that from birth, pp.