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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

693.0. "Feel" by LABC::FRIEDMAN (Don't be happy; worry.) Tue Jul 11 1989 22:29

    Does the word "feel" have one syllable or two syllables?
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693.1TOPDOC::SLOANEOpportunity knocks softlyTue Jul 11 1989 23:165
    One.
    
    Unless you've got a heavy southern drawl.
    
    Bruce
693.2LAMHRA::WHORLOW1:25000 - a magic numberWed Jul 12 1989 14:155
    ....or using both hands   :-)
    
    
    djw
    
693.3Bisyllabism roo-ullsWELSWS::MANNIONFri Jul 14 1989 12:377
    It's two syllables in Manchester: fee-ull.
    
    So is school: skoo-ull
    
    But my name only has one: Flip
    
    Phillip
693.4While we're up North ..CLARID::BELLDavid Bell, ASD Program Office, VBOMon Jul 17 1989 12:405
	I think my favourite Manchester (UK) word has got to be either

		bokkle   -- glass container for liquids, or
		hospikul -- place to treat ill people

693.5Rounding off the sharp bits...IOSG::ROBERTSRichard, Developer/UI SpecialistTue Jul 18 1989 11:0313
    .... while up in North Yorkshire some of us don't bother with 'l's at all:
    
    bokkoow - "bottle"
    
    And even the odd 't' becomes surplus to requirements;
    
    wiyaow - "without"
    
    Hmm. Vive le glottal stop!
    
    R|tch^d