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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Your Name wrote on 12/06/2024 6:53 am:
> 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...

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=grrr
"grrr" ... Representing the *sound* of growling, as by a dog or similar 
animal

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=psst
psst .... Used to attract attention or give warning, esp. 
surreptitiously .... represent a hiss.

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=brrr
brrr .... Used as an exclamation to accompany a shiver of cold, fear, 
disquiet, etc.

Not really GLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS as *WORDS* !!

>>>> :-)
>>>
>>> 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

Yeap!

> Yep, they are definitely words.

Nope, VOCALISATIONS!! SOUNDS!!

> 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. :-)

Maybe in *Croatian* , they have a different *Golden Rule* !! .... Maybe, 
in Croatian (possibly one of my G-G-Grandfathers native languages, 
although I think he might have fled (Russia/Urals) to get to Croatia!!) 
the *Golden Rule* is "Every word MUST have a 'R'"

>> 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

Thank you. ;-P     "color" ... Wrong or lazy!! ;-P
-- 
Daniel