# The one-syllable thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 7, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308 "2024-12-07T16:05:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/201 "2025-01-09T16:52:40Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I might try to say that I say one of those as one While I know what you mean, I still claim it is two. The first part sounds like “tie” and part two rhymes with “bird.” At least, that is my view, and how I say it. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/202 "2025-01-09T17:26:03Z")
When I say it out loud I think you might be right. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/203 "2025-01-09T17:39:40Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Who bought her the toy that squeaks? Well, my wife bought the squeak ball. But, I am the one that plays with her (I mean the dog, not the wife). I read that the squeak is the same kind of sound as small prey. And it’s a game. She will come up to me with the toy in her mouth and then I go to grab the toy. She won’t let me take it from her (with a growl) and comes back for more. And so on. It’s cold. They say there will be a snow storm this week. I try to stay in as much as I can (I work from home). I go out just to take the dog out or get the mail. Side note: As I typed that, a song was on. It was These Dreams by Heart. It had: These dreams that sleep when it’s cold…That fit what I had just typed. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/204 "2025-01-09T17:43:52Z")
Tahrd. as in I am tahrd & need a nap; spoke in the South. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/205 "2025-01-09T17:49:35Z")
Good point. But I am in the North, and do not speak that way. Those who live in the South and so speak could use that word in this thread, but I think I should not. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/206 "2025-01-09T18:32:59Z")
All is fair in love & war…& one-sound posts here! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/207 "2025-01-09T20:24:05Z")
“The work we done was hard, At night we’d sleep, ’cause we we tir’d” L. Lynn, “Coal Guy’s Girl Kid” (the end words rhyme in the song) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/208 "2025-01-09T20:26:25Z")
Which makes me think, how long a quote from a known song or book would fit this thread? Lynn does quite well with two full lines in a row, but that is the max in this song. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/209 "2025-01-09T21:14:07Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Which makes me think, how long a quote from a known song or book would fit this thread? _O say can you see, by the dawn’s ea_– never mind. _God save our gra_— never mind. _I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I Am. I do not like them on a…_ ^^I think this book will win the prize. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/210 "2025-01-09T21:46:13Z")
It looks like this is a hard game to play, but I just saw this thread now and I want to try. I am bored as my boss took a plane to a state south of where I work. He wants to watch his kid play a game with a ball made of black and white shapes. There is sun in the sky on this day, but we will get a lot of snow on the next day. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Ate with thick red sauce from Heinz. Or was it Hunt’s? No diff. Big diff. Heinz wins. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/211 "2025-01-09T23:08:58Z")
Nice start! ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/212 "2025-01-09T23:33:55Z")
At work some folks met, and had food from a chain place that makes meat and rice and beans in a flat bread wrap. I did not meet with them, but when they were done they put the food that was left in the break room for more folks to eat. There was not 'nuf food left for a meal, most of what was left was the stuff you put on top of the main food. But I made a nice snack out of corn chips, the last bits of meat, beans, cheese, the sauce made out of mashed green fruit, and sour cream. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/213 "2025-01-09T23:41:22Z")
Was the chain place Moe’s? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/214 "2025-01-09T23:43:30Z")
No, it was a place that I can’t say in this thread, but it starts with C and ends with 'le. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/215 "2025-01-10T01:31:34Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Was the chain place Moe’s? Thats not food. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/216 "2025-01-10T17:50:48Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > _I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I Am. I do not like them on a…_ > > ^^I think this book will win the prize. I read this week about Green Eggs and Ham and how it would fit. But, it has one word that won’t work. “I do not like them here nor there, I do not like them…” And then the word that won’t work. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/217 "2025-01-10T18:37:04Z")
I have a book that is _Green Eggs and Ham_ that a guy changed to the speech from Old Rome. It is a fun book. But it is much worse than the first one in terms of the rule for this thread. That type of speech from Old Rome does not have a lot of one sound words. I skimmed through the book and as far as I can see, there is not one line in it that I can quote in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/218 "2025-01-10T20:10:39Z")
Let’s see if I can say this here: The tongue we speak here has short words to say things that in the speech of Old Rome are made part of words, so those words must have more length since they say both those parts; while in this tongue one can say those parts in two short words. [And some of those parts we do not need to say at all.] I think you knew that; but I did want to try if I could say it here. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/219 "2025-01-10T21:08:26Z")
This is the day I work from home. After his nap, the cat came in to ask for more food. I gave him some, just so he would leave me 'lone. But he did not need more food and did not eat much. He just wants food in his dish at all times. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/220 "2025-01-10T21:18:56Z")
I just want to say that I think this thread is fun. At times I try to come up with ways to do this in real life - at least in my head. There are times that are hard to make it work, which is part of the fun. So, a big thank you to the person who came up with this. A lot of snow here. At least it is for those who live here. I grew up in the west where there is a lot more snow. I am used to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308.md?page=12)