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Originally posted by General PutzerQUEUEING (your spelling is incorrect) is the answer to this question: " Is there an eight letter word with five vowels in a row? (in English)"
queuing has two syllables " queue-ing", so do all the scrinched scranched scru.......whatevers
nothing to do with the original one posted by htownballer!
you 're wrong: scrinched and scraunched and all other words in my previous post have ONE syllable only: check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraunched
also: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/queueing?view=uk
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Originally posted by General Putzerplease please please read this, you're mistaken:
no I'm sorry. it's "scraunch-ed" two syllables.
"ed "at the end of ANY word is another syllable.
I knew that when I was in the second grade.
" A syllable is a word or part of a word that can be pronounced with ONE IMPULSE from the voice. A syllable always contains a vowel sound, and most syllables have consonants associated with the vowel."
Now when you say "scraunched" , it is not pronounced "scraunch-- ed" as two separate sounds.
You write that "ed "at the end of ANY word is another syllable but this is not true in all cases:
Take "ended" or "provided" for example, then the "-ed" sound is one extra syllable: "en--ded" (two syllables) and "pro--vi--ded" (three syllables)
I knew that before I was in the second grade and I still do, after 5 years spent reading literature at University
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Originally posted by General PutzerRegular verbs in English all have 'ed' added to their base form to become past tense verbs.
no I'm sorry. it's "scraunch-ed" two syllables.
"ed "at the end of ANY word is another syllable.
I knew that when I was in the second grade.
play + ed = played
walk + ed = walked
nod + ed = nodded
But these regular past tense verbs have one of three endings in regards to their pronunciation; /d/, /t/ and /id/.
The last sound of 'played' is /d/.
The last sound of 'walked' is /t/.
The last sound of 'nodded' is/id/.
(note that the 'letters' appearing between the back slashes represent sounds - I think in America, phonetic script appears between square brackets [] )
It is only the third group of regular past verbs - those that end in an /id/ sound - that count the final sound as a syllable.
played, walked scraunched, strived are all one syllable.
wanted, nodded, grated, are two syllable words.
general has three, I think (like imbecile), but is often pronounced as if it has two (like brainless).
putzer, like the German 'dumkopf', has two.
I think your claim that all words with an 'ed' at the end counting as an extra syllable was a bit of pee take because you at least attended second grade meaning you should have learnt better, but just in case you missed those classes - hope this post helps.
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Originally posted by treetalk😏
Regular verbs in English all have 'ed' added to their base form to become past tense verbs.
play + ed = played
walk + ed = walked
nod + ed = nodded
But these regular past tense verbs have one of three endings in regards to their pronunciation; /d/, /t/ and /id/.
The last sound of 'played' is /d/.
The last sound of 'walked' is /t/.
The last soun e learnt better, but just in case you missed those classes - hope this post helps.
Originally posted by uzlesscurtisy of google
Guess that's why you had to repeat the 2nd grade?
The one most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). However, one ought to mention also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
The complete Oxford English Dictionary also indicates the existence of scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched.
The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote.