The longest one-syllable English word?

[Berkeley Brett]

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Courtesy of the Oxford Dictionaries:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-longest-one-syllable-english-word

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What is the longest one-syllable English word?

The one that's most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). But
there are also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the
plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).

The 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary also has scraughed,
scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and
thrutched. It includes, too, a single instance of the ten-letter word
scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote, a novel
by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

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Many more "Vocabulary questions" addressed here:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/vocabulary-questions

The Oxford Dictionaries main site (quite good):

http://oxforddictionaries.com/

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[Berkeley Brett]

On Apr 27, 8:43 pm, Berkeley Brett <royal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope you are all well & in good spirits.
>
> Courtesy of the Oxford Dictionaries:
>

> http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-longest-one-syllable-...

>
> === begin quoted text ===
>
> What is the longest one-syllable English word?
>
> The one that's most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). But
> there are also scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the
> plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
>
> The 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary also has scraughed,
> scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and
> thrutched. It  includes, too, a single instance of the ten-letter word
> scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote, a novel
> by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.
>
> === end quoted text ===
>
> Many more "Vocabulary questions" addressed here:
>
> http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/vocabulary-questions
>
> The Oxford Dictionaries main site (quite good):
>
> http://oxforddictionaries.com/
>
> --

> Brett (in Berkeley, California, USA)http://www.ForeverFunds.org/

> My plan for erasing poverty from the world with micro-endowments that
> "give" forever into the future

One might also note that it is said that "almost" is the longest word
in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order....

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Brett (in Berkeley, California, USA)

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[fabzorba]

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I think that "smiles" is the longest one-syllable word in the English
language, coz it

(wait for it, wait for it...)

has a MILE in between the first letter and the last!

myles [who could have been smyles himself for this one] paulsen

[mrucb...@att.net]

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> I think that "smiles" is the longest one-syllable word in the English
> language, coz it
>
> (wait for it, wait for it...)
>
> has a MILE in between the first letter and the last!
>

> myles [who could have been smyles himself for this one] paulsen- Hide quoted text -
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Hi Looking in AUE in '98 shows that your 'miles' was mentioned as
well as 'squirrelled' and 'broughammed' and 'New Orleans' as a 10
letter 2 word pair, reportedly said as 1 syllable by natives. Went on
to cover the ever popular Featherstonehaugh reportedly pronounced
'Fanshaw' even though that is 2... Sorry don't do quotes because I
would probably offend some sensibilities on style or line length or
other aspect of trying that with GG. I'm not of the Usenet /Newsgroup
religious tradition, but those can be easily found with the search
line (if you got one). Peace