Is there another word with a syllable but not vowel?

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#180372 - 11/17/08 03:13 PM Re: Is there another word with a syllable but not vowel? [Re: tsuwm]
etaoin Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 6251 Loc: Vermont	Originally Posted By: tsuwm Looahville? um, that's LOUuhvle
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#180415 - 11/18/08 08:52 PM Re: Is there another word with a syllable but not vowel? [Re: etaoin]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 9812 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Ha! I'd say, "krooth".
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#180420 - 11/18/08 09:55 PM Re: Is there another word with a syllable but not vowel? [Re: Jackie]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 11846	I would say that cwm and crwth wouldn't count towards the score whether they're English words or not. The w is a vowel in both of them.
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#180426 - 11/18/08 11:12 PM Re: Is there another word with a syllable but not vowel? [Re: goofy]
GwynneF stranger Registered: 06/29/02 Posts: 7 Loc: Illinois	My Microsoft Bookshelf says cwm is Welsh: cwm cwm (k?m) noun See cirque. [Welsh, valley.]
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#180427 - 11/18/08 11:28 PM Re: Is there another word with a syllable but not vowel? [Re: GwynneF]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 8912 Loc: this too shall pass	OneLook lists ~16 English dictionaries that list cwm as an English word -- it's every bit as English now as, say, yenta.
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#180431 - 11/19/08 07:12 AM Re: Is there another word with a syllable but not vowel? [Re: tsuwm]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 11846	And W is still a vowel in them. Don't make me say irregardless!
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#180433 - 11/19/08 08:17 AM Re: no vowel runs thru 'em [Re: Faldage]
zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 1837 Loc: R'lyeh	And W is still a vowel in them. Yes. That's why it dawned on me earlier in this thread. Was GF asing about words with no graphemic or phonemic vowels. That's why I mentioned clicks (link), nasals, and (af)fricatives. I'd consider tsk /\|/, hmm /m:/, and sss /s:/ to be interjections (a kind of word). None of them has either kind of vowel in them.
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#180475 - 11/21/08 05:10 PM This one? [Re: GwynneF]
twosleepy addict Registered: 02/28/08 Posts: 464 Loc: western NY	I'll need some help on this one... In a scrabble game this word came up: byrls. I have tried to find a definition online, but to no avail. I would like to know: 1) the meaning 2) the pronunciation 3) if it qualifies Thanks in advance! :0)
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#180476 - 11/21/08 06:03 PM Re: This one? [Re: twosleepy]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 8912 Loc: this too shall pass	from the official online Scrabble [Hasbro] lookup: BYRL (BYRLED/BYRLING/BYRLS) to birle defined in the typical Scrabble dictionary manner! edit: oh, here's the link, for future reference Scrabble lookup Edited by tsuwm (11/21/08 06:05 PM)
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#180481 - 11/22/08 04:04 AM Re: This one? [Re: tsuwm]
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 1829 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	"and he goes birling, birling down the white water. The log driver's waltz pleases girls completely."
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