BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat is the funniest one syllable word you can think of?message-squaremessage-square206fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1117arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the funniest one syllable word you can think of?BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square206fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSusaga@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoSo you’re American, I take it?
minus-squareBougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoThis is kind of blowing my mind that a word that long is only one syllable
minus-squareALQ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoI see you’re unfamiliar with the alternate spelling, skwerl.
minus-squarethegreatgarbo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoOr the alternate spelling in our house so we don’t send the dog through the window: werl sounds like whirl
minus-squareRedacted@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoAlways appreciated the levels of drawl it takes to squeeze this into one.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoFunny, I drawl it into one syllable, but I read it as two. Didn’t understand how it fit the rule.
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So you’re American, I take it?
This is kind of blowing my mind that a word that long is only one syllable
I see you’re unfamiliar with the alternate spelling, skwerl.
Or the alternate spelling in our house so we don’t send the dog through the window: werl sounds like whirl
Always appreciated the levels of drawl it takes to squeeze this into one.
Funny, I drawl it into one syllable, but I read it as two. Didn’t understand how it fit the rule.