Monosyllabic

BongalloJoe

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BongalloJoe

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29 Oct 16

What is the longest one-syllable word you can think of?

No google-ing, that ruins the fun.

apathist

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29 Oct 16

I'm thinking few vowels, something like strength. Fire and ashes, is that even a single syllable.

HandyAndy

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29 Oct 16

strengths

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02 Nov 16

here is a 10 letter one: squirreled

HandyAndy

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03 Nov 16

Originally posted by Andrew Kern
here is a 10 letter one: squirreled

It isn't monosyllabic.

wolfgang59

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05 Nov 16

Originally posted by HandyAndy
It isn't monosyllabic.

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06 Nov 16

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Originally posted by Andrew Kern
here is a 10 letter one: squirreled

I went and looked. (10 or 11 letters) but you are right, and I'm surprised that the way I pronounce it agrees with 3% of the UK english speakers. Wiki says A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter [lol] words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirrelled.[1] It also says that squirrelled is compressed American pronunciation of a word which in British RP always has two syllables /ˈskwɪrəld/. The monosyllabic pronunciation rhymes with world, curled.

Also, Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. So I was pretty close! I wonder what scraunch and scroonch mean.

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07 Nov 16

Originally posted by wolfgang59

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According to wiki compressed inebriated Scottish pronunciation of the word is anthsm ... although in British RP it has ten syllables