Wtht Vwls.

chained_bear commented on the list wtht-vwls

Y knw, ppgn, my sstr nd _ sd t wrt ntr mls t ch thr wtht sng ny vwls. Srprsngly, w lrnd t rd thm prtty wll!

p.s. cl lst!

November 23, 2007

papageno commented on the list wtht-vwls

'm smlng rlly bg rght nw. _ lk yr cncpt abt th mls! t's prtty fn!!

p.s. thnks!

November 23, 2007

papageno commented on the list wtht-vwls

Blh. Jst wk p. Md _ mstk thr...

November 23, 2007

oroboros commented on the list wtht-vwls

I've been told that Hebrew is essentially written without vowels. Can anybody corroborate this?

November 24, 2007

papageno commented on the list wtht-vwls

I think this wikipedpia article sums it up pretty well.

November 24, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list wtht-vwls

Ppgn, t wrks rlly wll t wrk whn bss lks vr yr shldr--h r sh wn't b abl t tll wht th hll y'r rdng r typng!

November 24, 2007

bilby commented on the list wtht-vwls

Arabic is typically written without vowels. A classic text such as the Qur'an has them written in, partly for show and partly to encourage very precise recitation. On the other hand a newspaper or novel would not have vowels written in. Arabic speakers just know what they are as every consonant has a 'default' vowel. Hence 'ba', 'ta', 'kho', 'djim', etc. A word like dirham (unit of money) is therefore written drhm. I remember seeing giant, tasteless billboards in Amman that just said kwk-kwl but more than anything else the red and white colours and the twisty ribbon thing told me it was a capitalist-imperialist soft drink. And 'wa' is required to make a dipthong or a longish vowel ... easy!

November 24, 2007

papageno commented on the list wtht-vwls

ntrstng.

November 24, 2007

oroboros commented on the list wtht-vwls

Interesting. Thanks Papageno!

November 24, 2007

yaybob commented on the list wtht-vwls

I found the following at: http://snipurl.com/7213l

MWCD10 must be Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary 10th edition. I havent figured out what reference work W3 refers to. OED is, of course, Oxford English Dictionary

CWM (a glacial hollow on a hillside) has the rare W as a vowel, as does CRWTH (a type of stringed instrument). Both words are in MWCD10. They are pronounced "koom" and "krooth" (rhyming with room and truth). Other such words, not in MWCD10, are TWP (stupid), AWDL (an ode written in the strict alliterative meters), and LLWCHWR (a city-district in Wales). These words are of Welsh origin. The OED includes numerous archaic spellings in which W or V is a vowel.

Words containing no vowels include Q.T. (as in "on the q.t.") and DJ, both of which appear in the main part of MWCD10 and not in the abbreviations section. Other such words include BRRR, GRR, HMMMM, JHVH, MR., MRS., MS, NTH, PFFT, pH, PHPHT, PHT, PSST, SH, SHH, SSSHHHHH, TSK, TSKS, TSKTSK, TSKTSKS, TV, YHWH, ZZZ, HSH (hush, W3), ST (silence, quiet, W3), TCH (vexation or disgust, W3), TCK (surprise or displeasure), and TST (hissed sound enjoining silence, W3). PHFFFT! and SSSSSSS are titles of movies from 1954 and 1973. The OED has TPRW (the sound of a horn). GRRL is in the Macquarie Dictionary, with the alternate spelling GRRRL.

KRK is a Croatian island.

Strc prst skrz krk (Czech for "Put your finger through your throat") appears to have no vowels, but R serves as a vowel in Czech. Bydd y cyllyll yn y cwpwrdd wrth y bwrdd (Welsh for "The knives will be in the cupboard by the table") does not use the vowels a, e, i, o, and u.

The longest common word without an A, E, I, O, or U is RHYTHMS, but these additional words appear in W2: SYMPHYSY, NYMPHLY, GYPSYRY, GYPSYFY. The OED2 has TWYNDYLLYNG(S). And WPPWRMWSTE (in the OED) goes nine letters without an A, E, I, O, or U; GLYCYRRHIZIN (a constituent of licorice) goes eight letters without A, E, I, O, or U. (In all these words, "Y" is a vowel.)

December 3, 2008

sionnach commented on the list wtht-vwls

If I could put my finger through my throat, I suspect pronouncing vowels would be the least of my worries.

December 3, 2008

sionnach commented on the list wtht-vwls

ply, spy, pyx, hyp, gyp, sty, fry, fly, shy

And umm appears not to belong on the list

December 3, 2008

qroqqa commented on the list wtht-vwls

Actually none of 'nth', 'cwm', 'crwth', 'crypt', 'gypsy', or any of the other words with vowels belong here. The only words without vowels are ones where a consonant is the syllabic peak, such as 'brr', 'grr', 'mm', 'hmm', 'psst', 'pfft', 'shh', 'tsk'.

December 3, 2008

sionnach commented on the list wtht-vwls

???

December 3, 2008

plethora commented on the list wtht-vwls

I believe this list is just based on spelling, qroqqa, not pronunciation.

C_b, your very first comment on this list is puzzling me. I just can't figure out what ntr mls means... Help!

December 3, 2008

sarra commented on the list wtht-vwls

Bugger, plethora. Me neither!

December 3, 2008

plethora commented on the list wtht-vwls

Glad I'm not the only one. I've stared at it for ages, gone away, come back, stared some more, and for the life of me, I still can't decipher it.

December 3, 2008

reesetee commented on the list wtht-vwls

"Entire emails," I believe. Those initial vowels are always tricky. :-)

December 3, 2008

kewpid commented on the list wtht-vwls

(something) emails.

December 3, 2008

kewpid commented on the list wtht-vwls

Ah, beat me to it!

December 3, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list wtht-vwls

Yes, "entire emails." ;) Also we used an extra space between words to indicate "I," but here on Wordie I used an underscore.

December 3, 2008

plethora commented on the list wtht-vwls

Thank you, my mind is now at ease :P

December 4, 2008

Logophile77 commented on the list wtht-vwls

Because most of this list is composed of onomatopoeiae and words with y, the only words on this list that don't have vowels are crwth, nth and cwm.

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