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Throg:

--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 09 May 2013, 20:36 ---Hanners in a powersuit.  I approve.

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Iron Hanners!

QC/Marvel crossover!

Marten Reed: Extremis!

Kugai:

--- Quote from: Westrim on 09 May 2013, 20:26 ---
--- Quote from: Kugai on 09 May 2013, 17:58 ---I think my signature answers that.

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Speaking of your signature, there's a slice of cake next to your age in your forum profile. Is it your birthday?
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Yes.

51 on the 9th of May

Thank you for noticing.    :)

jwhouk:
Quick! Someone get a melted lug wrench cake! :D

And Emily is a dog walker. Somehow, this fits.

That's obviously Shelby over on the left. Which one's Roswell?

Is it cold in here?:
Hippo birdie two ewe!

I can offer no excuse for why my native language makes "crushed" one syllable and "blessed" two syllables (in e.g. "Blessed be the name of the Lord"). Nor for why "blessed" turns back into one syllable when it's a past tense ("The priest blessed them").

Emily: be advised that there are severe potential drawbacks to walking dogs barefoot.

KOK:

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--- Quote from: Akima on 09 May 2013, 15:36 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 09 May 2013, 12:38 ---Fair enough, to me, tire and hire rhyme with liar, which is two syllables, so that's why I consider tire and hire (and their past tense versions) to be two as well.
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I always struggle a bit with syllable count in English. As a rule of thumb, I base it on vowel-sounds, so tire is one syllable because there is only one vowel-sound, while liar is two because there are two vowel-sounds ("lie-ah" in my accent). Regional pronunciation does complicate this idea though, I will admit. I have known people who pronounce liar as "lahr".

I once wrote a poem that contained the word "crushed", and was bashed for treating it as two syllables. It certainly has two "beats", I think, but there is only one vowel-sound. On-line syllable counters sometimes treat it as one, sometimes two, so... I don't know.

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I think you're talking about diphthongs, which describe two vowel sounds in what's considered a single syllable. "Loud" "coin" and "side" are offered as examples" LOU-ewd, COE-ane and SI-ed.  You can try to pronounce them without changing the vowel sound, but at least in American English, you probably won't succeed.

So I don't see a distinction between TIE-er and LIE-er.

And "crushed" is not CRUSH-ed, but CRUSHT: one syllable. I think in some poetry, t is substituted for ed.

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English spelling seems extremely wierd to me. Diphtongs are spelled with a single letter (the word pronounced hai is spelled hi), while single vowels are spelled with two letters (two words pronounced si are spelled see and sea).  From my native Danish, I am used to counting syllables by counting vowel letters. "Marie" has an a, and i and an e, obviously three syllables.

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