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Thanks for the help. Worcestershire is my fave!
The dictionaries I have checked always have the word squirrel with two syllables. But why not girl and curl, etc? AND, by virtue, of the suffix -led, does it get drawn into a single syllable?
Why would MWCD10 have it as a single syllable? Is it a typo?
No a.
My last name has 7 letters, five vowels, and one syllable.
And yet I’m not ruler of the world.
Short version, Khan has just done something very unpleasant to Kirk, and Kirk is upset with him. Which is really all you need to know about the scene.
FWIW, Garrison Keillor pronounces bowl as two syllables. Drives me nuts.
But “Worcestershire” is never a one syllable word. Indeed, in its primary use as the name of the English county it has three syllables: wuh-ster-sheer.
Presumably iamthewalrus(:3= was making a little joke based upon the odd fact that in England, where the stuff originated (and Wikipedia tells me, in South Africa and “parts of” the U.S.), when the word is used to name the well known sauce, the “shire” inexplicably becomes silent. However, even then the word has two syllables: wuh-ster, or perhaps wuh-stuh. This is pronounced the same as the county town of Worcestershire, Worcester, where the stuff actually originated (and is still made).
It is also pronounced the same as the last name of Bertie Wooster.
My American (Californian) wife insists on saying Wuh-ster-shyuh sauce, though. Of course, Wuh-ster-sheer is one of the shire (pronounced shyuh) counties, and the hobbits also live in the Shire (shyuh), but I guess that is a whole different can of worms. Where are these fabled parts of the U.S, where people know how to pronounce “Worcestershire sauce” right?
I’m really not sure how much of this post is a joke. But Worcestershire has three syllables.
Again, not sure if I’m being whooshed, but girl and curl have only one vowel sound, hence only one syllable. Squirrel has two distinct vowel sounds, hence two syllables.
I appreciate that in some US accents it is (mis)pronounced as a single syllable, but if that sort of regionalism is allowable then we’re opening the door to Australians (strines with regional mispronunciation) forecastles (foxls with regional mispronunciation) and a million other 11 letter “single syllable” words produced by lazy pronunciation.
Because there are regional pronunciations, mispronunciations as far as I can see, that produce a single syllable, But if we allow regionalisms of this kind then we’re going to get all sorts of oddities in the list that have no reflection at all on the actual structure of the word.
The word squirrel rhymes perfectly with the single syllable words “girl”, “swirl” and “pearl”. I respectfully submit that the word squirrel therefore, has only one syllable.
The word Squirrelled rhymes perfectly with the single syllable words “world”, “whirled”, "curled"and “hurled”. I respectfully submit that the word squirrelled therefore, has only one syllable.
In your world, perhaps. Over here (where we invented the damn language 
) it has two syllables, and rhymes with “Wirral”.
Squirl? Is that really the proper American pronunciation?
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The nice thing about Duuuuuuuuuuuude is that the more pot you smoke, the longer the word gets.
‘Featherstoneshaugh’ this word is actually pronounced ‘Fanshaw’ - thats two syllables of course, but I have to mention it because it is so silly.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/academic/harrison/advice/twain1/
Two.
Squi-rrelled.
Can I propose “Featherstonehaugh’s Law”*, which states that any thread on unusual pronunciations will include a mention of said surname before the end of Page 1? 
Edit: * or should that be “Featherstonehaugh’s Laugh”?
Regarding “squirrel” and “girl” similarities: I think they rhyme phonologically. However, “squirrel” has the extra vowel to show a syllabic division. To my ears, it would not sound any differently if it were spelled ‘squirl.’ I don’t have a strong enough linguistic background to articulate it, but there’s something about that “dark l” that approximates an extra syllable, but it would look really ridiculous to see a dictionary dividing “girl” into “gir-l.” So, my opinion: “squirrel” has two syllables and “girl” has one by convention. YMMV.
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