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2y ago

What a great try

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Sequoia 😌
- Well done
  
  Education (´･ᴗ･ ` )
  
  I don't get it?
- Questionably?
- I hear this photo
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.
Try, cry, pry, wry... <- Except that in these instances, Y is the vowel. Unless you're playing Wheel of Fortune, where Ys are always counted as consonants and cost nothing to play.
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].
- I was going to post a less in depth reply along the same lines. Don't know why you're being downvoted.
- I also don't get why you're being downvoted so much. Great answer.
- 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.
Hmm, not sure if there are.
Rhythm !!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_without_vowels
- 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.
  
  Dry, crypt, dryly. It's crypty a word...
  
  "nth" is a "common" word though
- 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.
Pppffffttttt
Myst
- Y functions as a vowel in this instance
  
  You can't just identify as a vowel.
  
  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...
Fun fact: In Dutch 'vowels' is the same word as is used for 'streetstones' (klinkers), so if you ask this question in Dutch, the answer is 'dirtroad'. 😅
- This is a very dutch reply, 🤣.
Tsk tsk
- Brr (for cold) And brrrrrrrrr (for money printer)
Tch!
Hsptl?
Прст
I honestly dont know how people come up with these answers
"What's 'vowels', precious?"
HNNNNNGH!
Rythm
- Y is a vowel in rhythm
Crwth

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