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I would say that cwm and crwth wouldn't count towards the score whether they're English words or not. The w is a vowel in both of them.
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My Microsoft Bookshelf says cwm is Welsh:
cwm
cwm (k?m) noun
See cirque.
[Welsh, valley.]
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OneLook lists ~16 English dictionaries that list cwm as an English word -- it's every bit as English now as, say, yenta.
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And W is still a vowel in them. Don't make me say irregardless!
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And W is still a vowel in them.Yes. That's why it dawned on me earlier in this thread. Was GF asing about words with no graphemic or phonemic vowels. That's why I mentioned clicks ( link), nasals, and (af)fricatives. I'd consider tsk /|/, hmm /m:/, and sss /s:/ to be interjections (a kind of word). None of them has either kind of vowel in them.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I'll need some help on this one...
In a scrabble game this word came up: byrls. I have tried to find a definition online, but to no avail. I would like to know:
1) the meaning
2) the pronunciation
3) if it qualifies
Thanks in advance! :0)
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from the official online Scrabble [Hasbro] lookup: BYRL
(BYRLED/BYRLING/BYRLS)
to birledefined in the typical Scrabble dictionary manner!  edit: oh, here's the link, for future reference Scrabble lookup
Last edited by tsuwm; 11/21/08 11:05 PM.
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"and he goes birling, birling down the white water.
The log driver's waltz pleases girls completely."
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