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[–] ChrissiTea 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Close, I'm British.

I just looked it up and apparently what I considered syllables for my entire life until this moment is completely wrong. A syllable only refers to the vowel sound, not the individual sounds that make up a word. To clarify (for anyone else as stupid as me lol) with "Screeched", even though you are making 2 very separate sounds to say the word, only the sound with a vowel noise counts as a syllable, so the "ched" part doesn't count.

I feel reallly reallly stupid right now. Sorry guys.

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[–] RudeMechanics 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Wait, that? That's not how I understand it. A syllable is an individual sound. "Boat" is 1 syllable. "Circumnavigate" is 5. Scree-ched would be 2 syllables. Screeched the way I say it is one.

Regardless, here in the US, "screeched" is just one sound.

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[–] ChrissiTea 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

wtf google definitions why are you lying to me