NationStates Jolt Archive

Champion speller

I challenge you to a spelloff! Anyone else who feels like it can join too.


Here's how it'll work (I'm a pro at these):

~Post the pronunciation of one or more words (instructions to follow). The next person who feels like it will quote as many pronunciations as he or she feels like and post the word(s).

~Anyone may quote a pronunciation that has not yet been spelled and ask for any of the following:
a) definition. If the dictionary defines the word with a root, you may alter the definition by replacing that root with a phrase meaning the same thing.
b) usage in a sentence. Use the pronunciation in place of the word.
c) language of origin. Look in the dictionary.
It may, then, be to your convenience to post this with the pronunciation. However you don't have to.

~Pronunciation: Consonant sounds are fairly self evident. Use the most basic consonant for your sound. The ng sound will be represented by exactly that, /ng/. Here are the vowel sounds:

A: short /a/, long /ay/, open /ah/ (same as short o)
E: short /e/, long /ee/
I: short /i/, long /ii/
O: short /ah/, long /o/
U: short /uh/, long /oo/
schwa: /uh/

Syllables are separated by a space, and emphasis can be indicated by either capitals or an apostrophe (') directly preceding the first letter of the emphasized syllable.
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I will start us off:

/myoo suh LAJ uh nuhs/

definition: moist and sticky
sentence: Ted's freshman sister found it a challenge not to laugh at the /myoo suh LAJ uh nuhs/ white substance.
language: Latin, through Old French to Middle English and into modern English

Huh?

Huh?

It's how you learn English in univeristies throughout the world.

The word is mucilaginous and my vocabulary is too small to offer something as hard (went through all four of my dictionaries, then cheated on Webster) :)

Never heard of that word before :(

MUslim!

My turn dis/trd/is tu/hrd

Tommy found dis/trd/is tu/hrd to bother about!

this tread is to hard oooooo anyway i cant be bothered making one up soooo :sniper:

dis/trd/is tu/hrd

:rolleyes:

That would be /th*is thred iz too hahrd/

And I see nobody has the same passion for spelling as I do.

Mucilaginous is right. When I was trying to spell it I kept saying m-u-s-i-l-l- etc. thinking from pusillanimous, which I don't even know the definition of anyway.

Spelling fun!!!!!

No, it's really not.

-Branin, King of Typos

Shuddup. Some people here are geeks!

how amusing this sounds.
p.s. all puppets are gone, thanks oksana and all.
p.s.s I am a guy

:rolleyes:

That would be /th*is thred iz too hahrd/

And I see nobody has the same passion for spelling as I do.

Mucilaginous is right. When I was trying to spell it I kept saying m-u-s-i-l-l- etc. thinking from pusillanimous, which I don't even know the definition of anyway.

I have a passion for spelling (and grammar), too, but...this game is just a little confusing. Sorry.

You can not expect most people to even have noticed the IPA transcriptions in a dictionary, let alone know how to use them on a computer. (I happen to have had an IPA font installed in the past, which did make life easier). Even though I do know the IPA, I do not know a computer based version. This just makes this thread confusing. (For me th is either a capital or lower case greek theta. Capital being "three", lower case being "that")