“What’s ‘vowels’, precious?”
I honestly dont know how people come up with these answers
Sequoia 😌
Well done
I don’t get it?
It has one of every vowel.
Ah I see.
Education (´･ᴗ･ ` )
Questionably?
hllgkt
Myst
Y functions as a vowel in this instance
You can’t just identify as a vowel.
Ok boomer
Y can and does. You have a problem with that? Go complain on the internet.
Well in my native langugage “r” sometimes acts as a vovel, but it’s never considered one. We have words like: smrt, tvrd, prst, krt, vrt, brk…
Tsk is an onomatopoeia for disapproval
Hmm, pst, grr, mmm, all acceptable words in Scrabble https://scrabble.merriam.com/words-without-vowels
Scrabble’s acceptable words include non-English words and other BS. It’s about as far from a viable “word list” as you can get.
it’s just a bunch of approved letter sequences.
hell, there was Kiwi guy who won French Scrabble. Doesn’t speak or know any French, just memorised the book.
True enough, they include what they do for good game play, but according to various definitions of ‘word’ I looked up, onomatopoeia like hmm and shh are words. Yeah there are champions in African countries that don’t speak any English but win comps in English as well, it impresses me what memory can do.
The guy who won the French Scrabble World Championships as a non-french speaker was not an American. His name is Nigel Richards and he’s a New Zealander who now calls Malaysia his home.
Entirely true that the Scrabble word list is just like a collection of valid trading cards, Nigel Richards just collected them all.
oops! edited. 👍
Pppffffttttt
Hmm, not sure if there are.
Rhythm technically
In rhythm, y functions as a vowel, as it makes a vowel sound.
Why?
same.
Rhythm’s not a vowelless word.
Rhythm is a dancer.
Welp, now that’s gonna be stuck in my head for at least a few days! At least it’s a great song.
Mwah ha ha! My work here is done! 😈
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Hmm
Spelling-wise? Depends on what you mean by “vowel” and “word” – vowel isn’t really a term for letters/spelling, it only really makes sense in a phonemic/phonetic context. So, phonetically? Yes – i.e. words that only have a rhotic in the nucleus like “curd” which is just [kɹ̩d] in many rhotic dialects like most American English, “and” is often pronounced [n̩], “can” can be [kn̩]~[kŋ̍], “full” can be pronounced [fʟ̩] in some dialects (includinɡ mine). You can also include paralinguistic words like “shh” [ʃ̩].
In these examples such as curd and full, isn’t shwa the vowel? You can’t actually not have a vowel if you pronounce it.
/ɚ/ in American (including Canadian) English as in “nurse”, “curd”, “certain”, is usually labelled a “rhotacized vowel” in a phonemic context but it’s more precisely described as an approximant (due to the fact that it has some constriction around the palato-velar area, uvula, glottis, molars, and/or labio-dental area, depending on which variety you speak). And as I said, “full” is pronounced with no vowel in certain varieties.
I also don’t get why you’re being downvoted so much. Great answer.
I was going to post a less in depth reply along the same lines. Don’t know why you’re being downvoted.
Hsptl?
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Those aren’t really English “words” though. There’s some old welsh in there which actually used W as a double U. And then some onomatopoeia, which while defined in some dictionaries, aren’t really words anymore than abbreviations like CIA or FCC are words.
According to the Cambridge English dictionary a word is simply “a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken or written”, so acronyms and onomatopoeia are words as much as any other apparently. Maybe they would consider an acronym multiple units of language bound together though so not itself a word.
“nth” is a “common” word though
Dry, crypt, dryly. It’s crypty a word…
Fly, try and ply
Y is a vowel.
Ah, when i went to school it was only A.e.i.o.u that were the vowels.
Y is only sometimes a vowel: when it forms a vowel sound in a word.
In the case of “dry, crypt and dryly”, we could perhaps spell them “drie, cript and drielee” if we wish to see where those more familiar vowel sounds exist in those words.
Yeah, I’ve been reading up on it since the previous commentator drew my attention to it. Odd the bits of eduction you miss in life.
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A cwm (pronounced /ˈkuːm/) is used in English in a technical geographical or mountaineering context to mean a deep hollow in a mountainous area
Uhuh…
I’m about to cwm.
HNNNNNGH!
Kyrgyz… styrn.
Rhythm !!
Only by wheel of fortune rules.
What does this mean? What’s the rule?
Vowels are A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y
So by the wheel of fortune rules, Rythm has a vowel, so this word does not fit the criteria of having no vowels, correct? That’s what makes me confused about the “only by wheel of fortune rules” comment, which seems to imply that “Y” is a consonant, but they’re not saying that.
By wheel of fortune rules, y is always a consonant. But by typical rules of English, y is a vowel in rhythm.
Oh wheel of fortune says y never acts as a vowel, but in English rules y is sometimes a vowel. My bad I misunderstood!
I got it now. Thanks!
y is a vowel here
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