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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

“Rhythm” doesn’t rhyme with anything and doesn’t contain a letter that’s always a vowel.

[–] tal 16 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes#Masculine_rhymes

I wanted to double-check, but I don't see any other words here that have that property, so it's probably unique!

[–] mkwarman@lemmy.mkwarman.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In my dialect, written doesn't work quite as well, probably because that double 't' turns into a glottal stop.

[–] Denjin@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

General American speaker from Ohio, actually. Bottle, though, is boddle for me. Not sure why some words get it

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Apparently, there’s an obsolete English word “smitham” that means (or meant) “small lumps of ore random people found.” They were exempt from taxation by English nobility so large mine owners started breaking up large chunks into “smitham” to avoid taxation. Apparently, the Duke of Devonshire put a stop to that in 1760 and the word fell out of use.

So, I think rhythm still counts as weird. Noah Webster was 2 years old in 1760 and the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary doesn’t have it.

[–] incogtino@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] maniii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The Etymology of Orange.

:-D

Orange ( Anglo-Saxon ? English language )

Oranj. ( Slavic? European? etc language )

Naranj. ( Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian language )

Narang. ( Hindi , Sanskrit Indic language )

Narthangai. ( Tamil - South Indian language )

:-D

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Y is always a vowel! I don't know why they tell children it isn't.

[–] viralJ@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A vowel is the core of a syllable. Y is not always that, as in "yes" - it works as a consonant in that word.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's part of a diphthong with E in that word, two or more vowels making a sound in combination.

[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a consonant. Specifically it's the voiced palatal approximant represented as ⟨j⟩ in IPA.