You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

0
2

[–] ChrissiTea 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

is "Screeched" really one syllable? I definitely pronounce it "scree-ched"

Edit: deleted a hyphen that didn't even explain how I pronounce it, and I also realised it could sound monosyllabic in a certain accent)

Edit 2: (posted as a reply to another comment) 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.

Edit 3: Google definitions lies, a syllable is the individual series of noises and sounds that make up a word, so...yeah, to me "Screeched" isn't monosyllabic.

0
2

[–] ButcherOfBlaviken 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Then you're pronouncing it wrong.

0
1

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

What are you, a character in Shakespeare? I could be wrong, but I think it's one syllable.

0
1

[–] 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.

0
1

[–] nm96 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Are you saying that you pronounce the "ch" as a separate syllable? Because that's retarded.

0
0

[–] ChrissiTea ago  (edited ago)

No, sorry I wrote it out terribly, the "ed" noise (which is also part of the "ch" but the "ed" is the more distinguishable syllable). But regardless "screeched" is definitely not a single syllable word.