Originally Posted by AlexsMom
Originally Posted by shellymos
he announces "supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus has 14 syllables....and also 14 vowels" People just aren't sure what to say to comments like that.

"16 vowels, actually." wink (Each syllable has one vowel sound in it, but the last sound is spelled with 3 vowels.
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And the answer to that response is "He's really into linguistics". DH got quite cross the other day when we had a somewhat similar conversation - his point being that "vowel" is an interesting concept when it refers to some of the sounds in our language but of almost no interest at all if it's just a label for 5 (or sometimes 6, because people do object to the absurdity of saying that "hymn" contains no vowel, even though they don't seem to feel the same about the the absurdity of saying that "said" contains two!) letters.

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