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#30421 05/26/01 08:11 PM
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I heard from some friends that pocket lint can also be called gnrr. Has anyone heard of this word before? Does it exist?


#30422 05/26/01 09:12 PM
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I don't think it's real. It's got no vowels.

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#30423 05/26/01 09:24 PM
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Does it exist?

It does now!


#30424 05/27/01 02:48 AM
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Warrants investigation. Crwth has no vowels ( from the Welsh; meaning crowd)...so that's no criterion for dismissing
something as a non-word in English! In fact, Anu did a week of vowelless words once, long before I subscribed. (I know because I thought "crwth" was my best-kept Scrabble secret...but A.W.A.D. already had it documented!)
Gnrr is not in my dictionary, though. But it sounds pretty cool. If it's not a word, it should be!


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Welcome aBoard, squid. I finally found one lonely, unhelpful ref. to a word I thought I remembered seeing somewhere. Hopefully someone with a better dictionary than I have access to can check out this word: gnurr.
So, here is the context, and FWIW (not much), the site:

It's not like Elise polluted it (well, maybe Bill did:-). That is all
*our* old PRDB gnurr. If we did not care enough to clean it up in those
days, and we don't look in there now and clean up our pieces, who are we
to complain? Ever read "Grazing of the Commons"?
http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/9512/msg00136.html


#30426 05/27/01 01:13 PM
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Crwth has no vowels ( from the Welsh; meaning crowd)
In Welsh, there are a lot of letters that are used as vowels that aren't used like that in English, like w. And they pronounce dd as th. But I haven't ever seen g, n, or r used as vowels.

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whilst I (doubtfully) look up gnurr, I will also throw out gnarr, which is to snarl... [exits to growelry, stage left]


#30428 05/27/01 11:25 PM
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gnrr, gnurr, gnarr...

How would you pronounce these? With the hard g sound, or the silent g of gnu?


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gnrr, gnurr, gnarr...

How would you pronounce these?


My guess is infrequently. And with a silent g, as in gnu.


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a silent g, as in gnu.

Wer-hot? A ger-nu! But it's the ger-nicest creature in the zoo!


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