The way you’ve phrased the question makes it seem like there’s just the one answer, but there’s a few others, for example:
august
lima
mobile
job
nice
Yes, that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to say. That is a bit of an exaggeration, but I pronounce pedigree as pedigreeeeeeeeee.
No, that angry and hungry have very short vowel sounds at the end but pedigree has a long, extended vowel sound at the end.
Pirates have West Country type accents not Scottish, and besides Newton, Bristol was also a common exiting point for the New World.
Depending on the dictionary, either “set” or “run” has the most dictionary definitions, often 400+ meanings each.
“ough” can have anywhere from 6-10 different pronunciations, depending on your dialect or age.
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
-James Nicoll
What a country!
Words like “cleave” can have completely opposite definitions. These are auto-antonyms.
Nitpick: “Vowel” refers to either the sound or the orthography. Both those contain vowels, but not letters representing vowels.
“cleave” can mean to stick together or to split apart.
The word “bear”, meaning the animal, comes from the Old High German word for brown. The bear is literally, The Brown One.
I think wikipedia made this up. If you went up to somebody and said that would they understand you? As a matter of fact, just looking at that sentence here I can’t understand what you’re trying to say without looking it up.
If you are using more than two adjectives at a time, you are probably doing it wrong.
Wow! I learned something new today, thanks 
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This is a very educational thread, I’ve never heard the word curdle, I need to look it up.
I learned in grammar school that “y” and “w” were both consonants and vowels. There are many examples of “y” used as a vowel, often the only vowel in a word. But “w” only appears as the only vowel in a few words of Celtic origin, like cwm and crwth. It commonly functions as a vowel, however, in diphthongs with other vowels in words like paw, new, or grow.
I assume you mean “wrongly”.
So I started looking for examples of the word 'pedigree" on Youtube. First I thought of the Pedigree brand of dog food and looked for that, and found an Australian commercial where they indeed pronounced it so that it would rhyme with angry/hungry. But here is an example discussing pedigree charts–note how pedigree has a long vowel sound at the end–and rhymes with tree, not angry.
“w” is what is called a semi-vowel, of an order comparable to “й”. It always modifies a vowel, either in attack (“wax”) or diphthong-like formation (“cow”). In normal English, it has no sound that is not dependent on a vowel. Apart from lenition, “h” behaves in essentially the same way – it is a sort of semi-consonant-semi-vowel that is always dependent on another single letter to define the sound it represents. “y” is a vowel-semi-vowel hybrid.
As Wiki says, the construction first appeared in Dmitri Borgmann’s Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought in 1967. I recall seeing it when I was in college.
Of course it’s a highly artificial construction that was created to demonstrate a point about language. Nonetheless, it’s a valid sentence.
I prefer “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
(“Badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers mushroom mushroom” isn’t a valid sentence, but it sure sticks with you.)
Except that’s just stringing together parts of speech in a valid order. It’s not the same kind of example. The “buffalo” example actually means something, as difficult as it may be to parse.
Here’s something interesting. Any thread about interesting things about English will consist of 3% interesting things and 97% people nitpicking each other’s posts.
I see some silly things here. Is this a joke thread?
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“Bird” is clearly an Onomatopoeia.
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the claim that the word “duck” doesn’t echo, is a confusion with the myth (i.e.false) that ducks quacking don’t make echoes. They do, but the way they quack often chances to hide the fact.
A minor offering of my own: because English has “pilfered” from so many other languages, we end up with situations such as that the word “lead” can either refer to a heavy grey metal, or the act of showing others how to proceed. It’s due to the evolutionary intersection of two words from unrelated languages, which changed over time until they were spelled the same, but pronounced differently.
“Badger”, “mushroom” and “snake” are each both nouns and verbs. “Badger badgers badgers” would be a valid sentence about a particular mustellid harassing other mustellids of the same kind, and “mushroom mushrooms” is exactly what happens in the video, although the necessary “-s” endings are missing from the words in the chant. The snake part, well, maybe not so much, though it sounds to me faintly like “I think I see a snake, a snake”.