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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Education (´・ᴗ・ ` )

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[–] Pantrygheist@programming.dev 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tsk is an onomatopoeia for disapproval

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hmm, pst, grr, mmm, all acceptable words in Scrabble https://scrabble.merriam.com/words-without-vowels

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] enkille@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hmm, not sure if there are.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Rhythm's not a vowelless word.

Rhythm is a dancer.

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[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

In rhythm, y functions as a vowel, as it makes a vowel sound.

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[–] force@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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].

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

I was going to post a less in depth reply along the same lines. Don't know why you're being downvoted.

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[–] voidskull@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Only by wheel of fortune rules.

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[–] mihnt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Neil@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

I'm about to cwm.

[–] Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Pppffffttttt

[–] doctorn@r.nf 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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'. 😅

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ply?

But only if you reject the "sometimes y" clause.

[–] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

rhythm.

I think there might be a sometimes w clause too. But any w words I can think of have a y anyway

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

W is a sometimes vowel in Welsh. There are a few Welsh words that are valid in Scrabble dictionaries, which is really the only metric that matters. There are also several onomatopoeias that are valid Scrabble words, like mmm or brr or tsktsks. That last one is the only 7 letter word with no vowels or sometimes vowels.

[–] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 years ago

Maaan, everything is a vowel if you just Welsh it hard enough.

[–] ryry1985@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[–] ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also by/dry/cry/pry etc. There are loads if you exclude y as a vowel.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Y functions as a vowel in this instance

[–] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can't just identify as a vowel.

[–] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

Y can and does. You have a problem with that? Go complain on the internet.

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Kyrgyz... styrn.

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[–] nbafantest@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I honestly dont know how people come up with these answers

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
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