# Different ways to spell terminal /erd/. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377 "2017-11-22T06:26:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/1 "2017-11-22T06:26:30Z")
I found 25. Are there any more? must-ARD n-ERD h-EARD b-IRD w-ORD c-URD inf-ERRED st-IRRED w-HIRRED sl-URRED mast-ERED inj-URED maj-ORED anc-HORED col-OURED ans-WERED sug-ARED mart-YRED beleag-UERED blackg-UARD cupb-OARD liq-UORED elix-IRED m-YRRHED Arguably, g-RRED, made a sound of threat or isappointment. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/2 "2017-11-22T06:33:47Z")
TLTE - I think I missed mit-RED. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/3 "2017-11-22T07:56:14Z")
Papa, ooma mow mow How about murmured (ends -URED, but not quite pronounced the same as injured (some items in your list are probably debatably duplicates depending on dialect. Anchored and majored are pretty similar to me - I think I count the H in Anchor as part of the ‘Ank’ initial sound) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/4 "2017-11-22T09:54:57Z")
They mostly do for me. They all have the same “urd” as in “turd” apart from Mastered (“tud” on the end) Blackguard (“gad” on the end) But both of those are probably just regional pronunciation differences ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/5 "2017-11-22T14:14:43Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Papa, ooma mow mow > > How about murmured (ends -URED, but not quite pronounced the same as injured > > (some items in your list are probably debatably duplicates depending on dialect. Anchored and majored are pretty similar to me - I think I count the H in Anchor as part of the ‘Ank’ initial sound) Similarly, the “h” in “whirred” goes with the digraph “wh.” It would be like separating “third” into t+hird. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/6 "2017-11-22T15:08:09Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Similarly, the “h” in “whirred” goes with the digraph “wh.” It would be like separating “third” into t+hird. Agreed, unless you’re rolling the double R, but if you are, it’s probably the same as stirred ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/7 "2017-11-22T20:05:59Z")
shep-HERD was the only one to come to mind without help. I used the [Moby Pronunciator](http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/mpron.html) file I downloaded years ago for a different project and a short Python script I wrote to find two more. Unfortunately MP doesn’t generally include past tenses, so there may be others. f-YRD (English militia before the Norman conquest, pronounced “furd” according to MP) flanc-HARD (a piece of armor on the flank of a war horse, pronounced “flankurd” according to MP.) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/8 "2017-11-22T21:00:40Z")
Lyn-YRD Skyn-YRD ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/9 "2017-11-23T06:02:43Z")
They’re all spelled differently because there’s no schwa in the standard English alphabet. And English is spelled more historically than phonetically. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/10 "2017-11-23T06:08:57Z")
I’m from Manhattan, and those are not all pronounced the same to me. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/11 "2017-11-23T10:56:27Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’m from Manhattan, and those are not all pronounced the same to me. That may be so, but if you look them all up in any dictionary, all will be represented as /erd/ in the phonetic pronouncer. Meanwhile, you can keep on saying “water” as “whoa-tah”, and “father” as “faw-ddah” and the rest of us will keep on making fun of you. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-ways-to-spell-terminal-erd/802377/12 "2017-11-23T20:09:53Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > That may be so, but if you look them all up in any dictionary, all will be represented as /erd/ in the phonetic pronouncer. > > Meanwhile, you can keep on saying “water” as “whoa-tah”, and “father” as “faw-ddah” and the rest of us will keep on making fun of you. Um, I’m also from Manhattan and no one pronounces water or father like that. I have literally no idea what you mean.