Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
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: <v4adfh$17scm$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v3up07$21qb7$1@dont-email.me> <v495rs$1017h$2@dont-email.me> <xn0omybffbvouyq008@post.eweka.nl>
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! ;-)