One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
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I see your drupe and raise you a pome.
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"It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be said, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
– The Gospel of Thomas
– The Gospel of Thomas
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We had a couple math terms here and it made me think of the word nome.
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And outside of Indian English...
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Just trying to establish the parameters. Because if any common term specific to a variety with 100 million speakers or fewer is fair game, then there are a lot more BE terms we could be posting here.Nessari wrote:And outside of Indian English...
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The parameters of the game were never meant to be limited to rare words, but rather to oddly specific or technical meanings of monosyllabic words. I.e. sememes you wouldn't immediately suspect would get such concise lexemes to express them, the point being to illustrate how incredibly monosyllabic English can be.
"It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be said, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
– The Gospel of Thomas
– The Gospel of Thomas
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Sorry for gravedigging, but thanks to autocorrect I just learned the word trank, specifically definition #2: "the piece of leather from which a glove is cut", and I immediately thought of this thread
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Pons: A region of the brain stem in between the Medulla and the Midbrain.
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Let's not forget Bartleby the Scrivener!Salmoneus wrote: 'Scrivener' is an old word for a scribe - a word you don't encounter in daily life, but that does crop up in mediaeval settings now and then. You also sometimes see 'screever', though it's now mostly used for artists rather than writers.
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Why do those need capitalization xD?TaylorS wrote:Pons: A region of the brain stem in between the Medulla and the Midbrain.
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"roid him up a little more"
My director commenting to another animator that a character with big muscley veiny arms could look even more exaggeratedly steroid-swollen. It was a one-off, an ad hoc verbing of an abbreviated noun but I thought of this thread because of how much meaning was in that one syllable.
My director commenting to another animator that a character with big muscley veiny arms could look even more exaggeratedly steroid-swollen. It was a one-off, an ad hoc verbing of an abbreviated noun but I thought of this thread because of how much meaning was in that one syllable.
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It's not that rare, in some circles at least
(Not that I really want to contribute to the "Here's a rare word!" - "Pah, scoff! I use it every day!" pattern that can be found throughout this thread, but to be honest, I have heard it 'relatively often', for an ad-hoc derivation like that)
(Not that I really want to contribute to the "Here's a rare word!" - "Pah, scoff! I use it every day!" pattern that can be found throughout this thread, but to be honest, I have heard it 'relatively often', for an ad-hoc derivation like that)
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I learned this one today, after browsing an etymological dictionary: thill
thill : a shaft, especially one of a pair, used to attach a cart or carriage to the animal drawing it.
It's cognate with Latin 'témó', which has the same meaning.
thill : a shaft, especially one of a pair, used to attach a cart or carriage to the animal drawing it.
It's cognate with Latin 'témó', which has the same meaning.
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I learned about that same word in the book I mentioned over in the PIE thread!Terra wrote:I learned this one today, after browsing an etymological dictionary: thill
thill : a shaft, especially one of a pair, used to attach a cart or carriage to the animal drawing it.
It's cognate with Latin 'témó', which has the same meaning.
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"Carbs", for "carbohydrates". Apparently a thing among nutrition-minded folks.
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category: ... d_with_-th a bunch in here
Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
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Shed and pick, in the context of weaving.
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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
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Came across "quirt" in one novel and "rowel" in another. (The latter is listed as bisyllabic in most dictionaries, but I can't perceive a consistent differentiation between this and "role" IMD.)
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For role and rowel I have [ɹɔɫ] and [ɹoʊ̯wɫ̩]. Not entirely sure about the vowels, but I definitely pronounce the w in the latter and have the l syllabic.
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I don't know how you pronounce "role", but my first instinct was to pronounce "rowel" /ˈɹaʊ(ə)l/, which turns out to be the pronunciation the dictionaries also ɡive.linguoboy wrote:Came across "quirt" in one novel and "rowel" in another. (The latter is listed as bisyllabic in most dictionaries, but I can't perceive a consistent differentiation between this and "role" IMD.)
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Ah, turns out I was misreading the phonetic spelling in the AHD which uses /ou/ to represent /au/.din wrote:I don't know how you pronounce "role", but my first instinct was to pronounce "rowel" /ˈɹaʊ(ə)l/, which turns out to be the pronunciation the dictionaries also ɡive.linguoboy wrote:Came across "quirt" in one novel and "rowel" in another. (The latter is listed as bisyllabic in most dictionaries, but I can't perceive a consistent differentiation between this and "role" IMD.)
Another candidate: add as a noun. Unless there's a meaning I'm not aware of, this has the very technical sense of "the act of adding someone to a group on social media" or "person so added".
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In video games, usually MMORPGs, 'adds' are mobs spawned in the middle of a boss fight.
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"Mob" itself may fit the topic, in the sense of (to quote Wiktionary) "A non-player character [in a video game] that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game."Matrix wrote:In video games, usually MMORPGs, 'adds' are mobs spawned in the middle of a boss fight.