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Topic	How many syllables are in the word "orange"?
StealThisSheen 08/09/20 9:57:12 PM #61:	CassandraCain posted... how the fuck is fire one syllable this topic infuriates me Because words like "fire" contain triphthongs, which is basically when you have three vowel sounds so close together they can be pronounced in one syllable. Thus, it's technically one syllable. Depending on where you're from and how you've been raised to speak, however, it can be hard to say such sounds in one syllable, and thus it ends up pronounced in two. Poets used to take advantage of this by going back and forth on such words as one syllable or two depending on what they needed. --- Seplito Nash, Smelling Like the Vault since 1996 Step FOUR! Get Paid! <cite>StealThisSheen posted [p:943197403] in How many s... [t:78902334]...</cite> <quote>CassandraCain posted... </cite> <quote>how the fuck is fire one syllable this topic infuriates me</quote> Because words like "fire" contain triphthongs, which is basically when you have three vowel sounds so close together they can be pronounced in one syllable. Thus, it's technically one syllable. Depending on where you're from and how you've been raised to speak, however, it can be hard to say such sounds in one syllable, and thus it ends up pronounced in two. Poets used to take advantage of this by going back and forth on such words as one syllable or two depending on what they needed. --- Seplito Nash, Smelling Like the Vault since 1996 Step FOUR! Get Paid!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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