Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who Spotting Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:53:06 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="444e40d5c16835acc1741cb6ff8bd386"; logging-data="1307030"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19I9/KTuosf435eF/5YYnVuU/g6OIelmoI=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RiAbuxKu6WwZ0iXfrLr9gBQOdwo= Bytes: 2262 On 2024-06-11 19:34:55 +0000, Blueshirt said: > Daniel70 wrote: >> Blueshirt wrote on 11/6/24 4:49 am: >>> Daniel70 wrote: >>>>> >>>> 'y' .... implied Vowel! EVERY WORD MUST HAVE A VOWEL* !! >>> >>> Except the words that don't... >>> >>> Grrr is a word, no vowel. As is Psst, no vowel... Brrr, >>> etc... >>> >>> :-) >> >> No, they are NOT words .... they are Vocalisations ..... and >> the above are attempted written representations of the >> sounds/vocalisations!! > > If they are in the OED Yep, they are definitely words. If you want to get really pedantic, then "every word must have a vowel" is wrong since there are quite a few non-English words that do not have vowels. For example, in Croation there is "prst" (finger), "krv" (blood), "trg" (square), "smrt" (death), etc. :-) > and I can use them in Scrabble then they are words! I wouldn't go that far. Scrabble allows many things that are not real English words. For a start it allows "color" which is just wrong. :-p > Unless you want to argue with the OED? > > If so, feel free to address your pedantic complaints to the > Oxford University Press, Oxford, England... > >> Hmm!! Am I taking on an 'Aggy' attitude myself?? > > We wouldn't have it any other way! ;-)