“games” magazine once claimed “sh” is a legal Scrabble word.
Sh.
Maybe I should continue reading before posting next time. Exapno Mapcase seems to have covered cwm.
From our friends at Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary:
What the rest of y’all’re discussing is orthography, not phonetics. The “sometimes y” rule is for spelling (orthography). That’s because the “y” is used for a particular sound in the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). Now, “myrrh” in IPA wouldn’t be “myrrh” but “mir” or “mirh” depending on how one pronounces it.
The word “txt” has increasingly gained a separate meaning to the word it abbreviates, when used specifically with reference to SMS phone messages.
Not yet in any dictionaries, but it certainly gets used and understood as a separate word.
Hmmph. Pfft.
Both of these words see common usage. By me, anyway.
Here’s a bonus question–name a word which has four vowels in a row. Sorry, no foreign words or proper names. I believe there is only one, but I may be wrong. I’ll be back with the answer if no one gets it!
QUEUE! Actually, according to a Lederer book I read once, MIAOUING, a variant of MEOWING, has five vowels in a row, but I never learned to count, so I can’t check him.
There’s lots and lots of 4-vowels-in-a-row words. Obsequious, aqueous, onomatopoeia, pharmocopoeia are some common examples. Five vowels in a row is much rarer.
Having observed that “queue” has four, you might observe that “queueing” has five.
There’s no reason you shouldn’t consider “y” a vowel when it’s acting like one. Think of it as a vowel that sometimes acts as a consonant. Also think of the letter “i,” which everyone admits is a vowel, but acted as both a vowel and a consonant until fairly recently.
Hmmm?
Tsk!
Don’t forget sequoia which has four vowels in a row and features every vowel in the alphabet, except that hermaphrodite y.
Appears to be a misspelling there, Ethilrist.
Both of these words see common usage. By me, anyway.
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I can’t seem to find this one using any of the spelling variations I considered.
gym
hymn
byte
cyst
synch
my
sty
sly
cry
dry
spry
try
why
awry
fly
fry
Okay you’re really going to have to justify that one before I buy it.
Mmm hmm
Nhh nhh
Is somebody being whooshed or do you really not see that awry begins with an “a”???
Psst!
and (my favorite) “Mrs.” Some would say Mrs. is an abbreviation. If so, someone please tell me what it is an abreviation for.