The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another word. For example,
Augustine Carreno <aca...@ipgnet.com> wrote: >Can you create a meaningful, "silent" dialogue?
>The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another >word. For example,
Trivial, since every letter can be used as a silent letter in one word or another. Although some of the words are awfully obscure.
aca...@ipgnet.com (Augustine Carreno) wrote: >Can you create a meaningful, "silent" dialogue?
>The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another >word. For example,
aca...@ipgnet.com (Augustine Carreno) wrote: >Can you create a meaningful, "silent" dialogue? >The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another >word. For example, >WATER: >ans(w)er >le(a)d >chas(t)en >don(e) >Wo(r)cester
I suspect that this is fairly trivial. I'm not certain, but I believe every letter of the alphabet exists as a silent letter in at least one word. I've been able to come up with examples for 21 of the 26 letters (I'm missing f, j, q, v, and z). I'm sure the r.p regulars will be able to provide those in fairly short order. Once that's done, any dialogue you write will be "silent".
Ob Puzzle #1: The word "knight" has three separate silent letters -- k, g, and h. What word contains the most different silent letters?
Ob Puzzle #2: What's the shortest list of words, measured in number of words that contains every letter as a silent letter of the alphabet at least once? The shortest measured in letters?
In article <5gqmkv$htn...@news.ipass.net>, "Scott D. Rhodes" <rhod...@ipass.net> writes
>I suspect that this is fairly trivial. I'm not certain, but I believe every >letter of the alphabet exists as a silent letter in at least one word. I've >been able to come up with examples for 21 of the 26 letters (I'm missing f, j, >q, v, and z).
> Augustine Carreno <aca...@ipgnet.com> wrote: > >Can you create a meaningful, "silent" dialogue?
> >The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out > >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another > >word. For example,
> Trivial, since every letter can be used as a silent letter in one word or > another. Although some of the words are awfully obscure.
If you think this is trivial, post a word for each letter of the alphabet with that letter silent. I think you enjoy blowing smoke...
Chris Lomont
P.S. Here's some to help you....
sarsparilla - silent r come - silent e bomb - silent b
>>The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out >>of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another >>word. For example,
>I suspect that this is fairly trivial. I'm not certain, but I believe every >letter of the alphabet exists as a silent letter in at least one word. I've >been able to come up with examples for 21 of the 26 letters (I'm missing f, j, >q, v, and z). I'm sure the r.p regulars will be able to provide those in >fairly short order. Once that's done, any dialogue you write will be >"silent".
"Halfpenny" and "fivepenny" provide silent F and V... pronounced, respectively, as "ha'penny" and "fi'penny". Both are obscure if not obsolete, but hey, they work.
A - B - bomb C - D - E - come F- G - paradigm H - I - achieve J - K - L - lilly M - N - O - cushion P - peppery Q - R - sarsparilla S - sassy T - tattered U - vacuum V - W - X - Y - Z - snazzy
Note I have kind of cheated here...
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Chris Lomont <clom...@omni.cc.purdue.edu> wrote in article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970320123728.23601A-100...@omni.cc.purdue.edu>...
> > Augustine Carreno <aca...@ipgnet.com> wrote: > > >Can you create a meaningful, "silent" dialogue?
> > >The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out > > >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another > > >word. For example,
> > Trivial, since every letter can be used as a silent letter in one word or > > another. Although some of the words are awfully obscure.
> If you think this is trivial, post a word for each letter of the alphabet > with that letter silent. I think you enjoy blowing smoke...
> Chris Lomont
> P.S. Here's some to help you....
> sarsparilla - silent r > come - silent e > bomb - silent b
jje...@rdisoft.com (J.R. Jenks) wrote: >The trick is to find 26 words, each with a different silent letter. >Then we'd be able to make any sentence we wanted to. >You've already come up with 9. Let's see how many of the remaining 17 >I can come up with. >le(a)d >bom(b) >s(c)enery >We(d)nesday >don(e) >F??? >si(g)n >(h)eir >I??? Sioux >J??? >(k)nob >pa(l)m >M??? mnemonic >colum(n) >soph(o)more >cu(p)board >Q??? >Wo(r)cester >chassi(s) >chas(t)en >U??? league >V??? >ans(w)er >X??? Sioux >Y??? may >Z???
>Can you create a meaningful, "silent" dialogue? > >The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another >word. For example,
The trick is to find 26 words, each with a different silent letter. Then we'd be able to make any sentence we wanted to.
You've already come up with 9. Let's see how many of the remaining 17 I can come up with.
X???
well, san antonio is in Bexar County, TX, which is pronounced more or less like "bear." don't know if that counts...
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In article <3330160f.4829...@news.ipgnet.com>, From aca...@ipgnet.com (Augustine Carreno), the following was written:
> don(e)
I'm not sure that I agree that the 'e' here is totally silent. If you remove the 'e' from the word "done", it changes the sound to that of the man's name "Don", quite different from "done".
> soph(o)more
The 'o' here is definitely not silent.
sophomore (sòf´e-môr´) noun
although I will admit that I hear it mispronounced all the time without the middle sylablle.
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>> >The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out >> >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another >> >word. For example,
>> Trivial, since every letter can be used as a silent letter in one word or >> another. Although some of the words are awfully obscure. >If you think this is trivial, post a word for each letter of the alphabet >with that letter silent. I think you enjoy blowing smoke...
Thanks to assists from Nick Wedd and Jonathon Haas, I've got it down to every letter save 'j':
greAves douBt sCene weDnesday siEvE halFpenny liGHt sIoux Knight haLf Mnemonic hymN siOux cuPboard colQuhoun saRsaparilla fleur-de-liS ofTen leagUe fiVepenny ansWer siouX maY capercailZie
Perhaps I'm blowing smoke until I get the 'j', but you must admit that it's a very small amount of smoke in any case.
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>Chris Lomont <clom...@omni.cc.purdue.edu> wrote in article ><Pine.SOL.3.91.970320123728.23601A-100...@omni.cc.purdue.edu>...
>> On 19 Mar 1997, Jonathan Haas wrote:
>> > Augustine Carreno <aca...@ipgnet.com> wrote: >> > >Can you create a meaningful, "silent" dialogue?
>> > >The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out >> > >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another >> > >word. For example,
>> > Trivial, since every letter can be used as a silent letter in one word >or >> > another. Although some of the words are awfully obscure.
>> If you think this is trivial, post a word for each letter of the alphabet
>> with that letter silent. I think you enjoy blowing smoke...
>> Chris Lomont
>> P.S. Here's some to help you....
>> sarsparilla - silent r >> come - silent e >> bomb - silent b
In article <5grsqi$8r...@halcyon.com>, Jonathan Haas <posit...@halcyon.com> writes
>"Halfpenny" and "fivepenny" provide silent F and V... pronounced, >respectively, as "ha'penny" and "fi'penny". Both are obscure if not >obsolete, but hey, they work.
The word "halfpenny" is neither obscure nor obsolete in Britain. Halfpennies aren't worth anything any more, but they still turn up under carpets.
> >> >The only requirement is that all words be "silent." That is, made out > >> >of letters or groups of letters each of which is silent in another > >> >word. For example,
> >> Trivial, since every letter can be used as a silent letter in one word or > >> another. Although some of the words are awfully obscure.
> >If you think this is trivial, post a word for each letter of the alphabet > >with that letter silent. I think you enjoy blowing smoke...
> Thanks to assists from Nick Wedd and Jonathon Haas, I've got it down to every > letter save 'j':
> greAves douBt sCene weDnesday siEvE halFpenny liGHt sIoux Knight haLf Mnemonic > hymN siOux cuPboard colQuhoun saRsaparilla fleur-de-liS ofTen leagUe fiVepenny > ansWer siouX maY capercailZie
> Perhaps I'm blowing smoke until I get the 'j', but you must admit that it's a > very small amount of smoke in any case.
> >Chris Lomont
> >P.S. Here's some to help you....
> >sarsparilla - silent r > >come - silent e > >bomb - silent b
> >Get the idea?
Speaking of blowing smoke, you might try "marijuana". Spoken in Spanish, the j makes the sound of an English "h", but many English speakers pronounce the word without the j/h sound.
Bob Sifniades <bob...@interactive.netSPAMBEGONE> writes: >Speaking of blowing smoke, you might try "marijuana". Spoken in Spanish, >the j makes the sound of an English "h", but many English speakers pronounce >the word without the j/h sound.
However, they do seem to pronounce the "j" as a "w"...
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>>Speaking of blowing smoke, you might try "marijuana". Spoken in Spanish, >>the j makes the sound of an English "h", but many English speakers pronounce >>the word without the j/h sound.
>However, they do seem to pronounce the "j" as a "w"...
Do you think so? I think it's more likely that they're pronouncing the "u" as a "w'>
Borrowing the rec.puzzles crown from Karen for a moment, I dub "marijuana" a word with a silent "j" and, thus, the final part of the solution to this puzzle.
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> Bob Sifniades <bob...@interactive.netSPAMBEGONE> writes:
> >Speaking of blowing smoke, you might try "marijuana". Spoken in Spanish, > >the j makes the sound of an English "h", but many English speakers pronounce > >the word without the j/h sound.
> However, they do seem to pronounce the "j" as a "w"...
> -- > Wei-Hwa Huang, whu...@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Why are they called "digital" watches? They're obviously carpal, not digital.
The "wa" sound comes from the "ua", so English speakers pronounce it as if it were spelled "mari-uana".
> > Bob Sifniades <bob...@interactive.netSPAMBEGONE> writes:
> > >Speaking of blowing smoke, you might try "marijuana". Spoken in Spanish, > > >the j makes the sound of an English "h", but many English speakers pronounce > The "wa" sound comes from the "ua", so English speakers pronounce it as if it > were spelled "mari-uana".
In some spanish speaking countries, like Venezuela, they say "mariGuana" "mariGuanero". The 'G' is pronounced exactly as in 'Guatemala'.
>>Speaking of blowing smoke, you might try "marijuana". Spoken in Spanish, >>the j makes the sound of an English "h", but many English speakers pronounce >>the word without the j/h sound. >However, they do seem to pronounce the "j" as a "w"...
The "w" sound, IMO, comes from the "u" immediately after the "j".
Okay, everyone, here's the new, improved list of silent letters across the alphabet. Thanks to all who had a hand in it (I can't remember who all that is, unfortunately.)
I'm a little disaapointed that no one's tried the challenge I came up with of getting the silent alphabet in as few words as possible. I thought that was the sort of thing r.p'ers would go after with almost as much enthusiasm as they would a nugry hunt. :-)
greAves douBt sCene weDnesday siEvE halFpenny paradiGm Honor achIece mariJuana Knight haLf Mnemonic hymN cushiOn cuPboard colQuhoun saRsaparilla fleur-de-liS casTle leagUe fiVepenny ansWer fauX maY capercailZie
Scott D. Rhodes () wrote: : Okay, everyone, here's the new, improved list of silent letters across the : alphabet. Thanks to all who had a hand in it (I can't remember who all that : is, unfortunately.)
: I'm a little disaapointed that no one's tried the challenge I came up with of : getting the silent alphabet in as few words as possible. I thought that was : the sort of thing r.p'ers would go after with almost as much enthusiasm as : they would a nugry hunt. :-)
As much enthusiasm as a nugry hunt? You got to be kidding me! Just take a look around. [I personally hate nugry hunts -- I like hungry nuts more.]
: sCene
Is it the "s" or the "c" that is silent here? Is there an official pronouncement on such things?
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