# 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:** 6
**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:** [December 27, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/101 "2024-12-27T17:42:05Z")
Hence my “I think”. I am sure that I am _not_ sure. To me it is an edge case. Sounds to me like “fay-uhld” or “fay-əld” is two but “fayl” is one. Folks who write not-prose oft use “fail’d” to show a change in sound or pace from plain old “failed”. Were it but one, there would be no need for the “fail’d” trick. Or so I think. Or think I think. 😉 ---
**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:** [December 27, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/102 "2024-12-27T18:16:30Z")
The sun’s out! I want to be out too. I’ll leave more desk work till the sun’s not so high. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/103 "2024-12-27T18:39:01Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > You failed with _two_ words…oops! 🙂 Damn. With two words that break the rule, I think that whole post is a fail. Now I wish I could get rid of it. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Hence my “I think”. I am sure that I am _not_ sure. So go to the source: > **[How many syllables in failed?](https://www.howmanysyllables.com/syllables/failed)** > > How many syllables in failed? Check the Syllable Dictionary. Learn to divide failed into syllables. How to pronounce failed. They say it’s just one. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/104 "2024-12-27T18:41:44Z")
Hmmm. With a cite to boot. Oops on me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/105 "2024-12-27T18:56:58Z")
Yes, just one of those sound parts for that word - I think so, too. That is to say, I am of like mind. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/106 "2024-12-27T20:14:12Z")
Start to see some green on lawn but it was white for dream song (sung by BIng) on day two five. Went out last eve to look at lit up pads before light comes down; some were great & some spent a lot of coin to fill their lawn with big pump ups. Took morn off; got up early to see sun rise (sep chat on that to come) but left dark specs at home as I did not need them when I left. (D’oh!) & take pup to vet. Went to store that sells round bread with hole in it two times this morn, once on way out & once on the way back; next one had egg & curd on it. Vet took some of the join her leg stuff out of her post them cut her but she has to go back on Mon to get the rest out. She still has to look like a lamp til then. Poor pup! ---
**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:** [December 27, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/107 "2024-12-27T21:47:16Z")
I think this thread might be more tough for folks from the South, where there are more vowls in some words. Many people have two in “vowls” but you can say it as one, as I have tried to show with my strange way to type it with no “E.” ---
**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:** [December 28, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/108 "2024-12-28T02:12:50Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Many people are sad when I pick nits. Which I do though I’ve more than once done this wrong in the same way. I need to go wash more than one dish and knife and pot and so on; which will need it too the next day, and the next, and the next; for I’ll use them, or most of them, those days too. Most things we need are like that. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/109 "2024-12-28T03:31:06Z")
Some years past, a guy wrote a whole book that does not have an “E” in it. I can’t name it here though. I don’t know if there’s a book that would fit the rule for this thread. It may be that there’s one by that Suess guy that fits? ---
**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:** [December 28, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/110 "2024-12-28T05:03:03Z")
Augh! “Lots of folks” is what I meant to say. I feel deep shame. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/111 "2024-12-28T16:32:29Z")
“Deep shame” seems like too much for such a small wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/112 "2024-12-29T04:36:05Z")
We went to see our cute young niece (she’s four months old now) on this day. We had a good time with her, her mom and her dad. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/113 "2024-12-29T20:47:21Z")
Quite warm here. I do not brag: I would love a change of pace! Long sleeve knit clothes do not get much use this time of year. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/114 "2024-12-29T21:12:09Z")
Quite warm here as well. I pulled weeds and gave my plants food but just came in due to the sun and heat that made me sweat. Now I sit on my couch, type this post, and watch one of the cats, who is perched on the couch too, watch me. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/115 "2024-12-29T21:16:52Z")
Wet from the gray sky fell off and on for most of the day. Not lots at a time, just slow. Drip drip drip. Uggh. The temp is warm, but seems cool. A good day to laze in a chair with some Dope folks. Soon it will be time for late day food. Hmmm. Where and what? And why? ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/116 "2024-12-29T21:21:28Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Wet from the gray sky Do you mean a slight rain? With the rules here, you can say that too. But if you want the word I think you want (it has two Zs, no?) then you may not write it. I just learned a great man died. Can you guess who? Here are some hints: He was Prez lots of years in the past. He was a Dem. He came from a farm. He served just one term. Then he helped build lots of homes for poor folks and won a big peace prize. He was quite old when he died. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/117 "2024-12-29T21:39:17Z")
I could and did guess; but I did not know till I saw your post. Then I went to look at the news. That was a good long run; and a good life. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/118 "2024-12-29T22:34:08Z")
Ice save this morn…a fish in the koi pond, caught 'tween thick ice & top net (to keep the birds out of snack pond). Chop ice w fire tool & then cut net. Rip leaf skim net due to weight of thick ice; oh, well, did save a life so small price to pay. Had to go to (not blue) big box store to get new net. Also bought new white light for front of car since one was out. It was so warm that I ran in shorts. Will do last meal in a few, then have new bottle of brown water with wax seal on top; most of the time it is red wax but this is rare one, for NY hoops team, wax is color of red mixed with sun hue, or one of the team dye ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/119 "2024-12-29T22:36:28Z")
This day I will try the sous vide tool I got for Yule. I plan to cook roots, you know, the ones the hare who says “What’s up doc?” eats. I hear they are good for the first try at sous vide. When I’m done I will post how it went, but in the thread where I can use long words. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308/120 "2024-12-29T23:53:10Z")
Lots of things are real good in sous vide. I don’t know if I have tried those orange roots though. Corn on the cob is great, but it’s the wrong time of year for that I guess. Lots of kinds of meat are good too. Sous vide is the one way I cook pork chops now. They don’t get dry and hard like they do when you cook them in a pan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-syllable-thread/1011308.md?page=7)