Smile for Christmas.

[Craig Newman]

Ali.

As I am fond of saying, "Americans expect everyone else in the world to learn our language, as we refuse to learn theirs”.

Same with the Scrabble lexicon; CSW is rather larger. Two different dictionary suites between us and the planet.  We are smug about that.

Craig

> On Dec 17, 2021, at 9:30 AM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Another super-useful and relevant scrabble word is EUOUAE, one of the
> charmingly monikered 'vowel dumps'. Unfortunately not available in TWL so
> only for UK scrabble play!
> 
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 at 14:08, Craig Newman via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> I play a lot of scrabble. One of the most endearing short words (Scrabble
>> is ALL about short words)  in both the English and American lexicons is
>> “CWM”, which is a forest hollow, is Welsh, and validates the old saw: “A,
>> E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y and W”.
>> 
>> Craig
>> 
>>> On Dec 17, 2021, at 7:57 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Beth ydych chi'n ei olygu, fy ffrind? mae'r Gymraeg yn iaith hyfryd.
>> Gyda dim ond y nifer cywir o lafariaid.
>>> 
>>> I love how the word for "vowels" is almost entirely made up of vowels.
>>> 
>>> Which brings me to my favourite Welsh word. For microwave. Popty ping.
>> Ok so its colloquial and only used in the south valleys "Wenglish" but it's
>> a great word.
>>> 
>>> Have a wonderful Christmas/New Year/Solstice/Holiday of your choice
>> season. Don't let my frivolous response to this thread draw you off the
>> straight and narrow course of purely and only discussing LiveCode on this
>> list. Or even cod byw.
>>> 
>>> Nadolig Hapus!
>>> 
>>> Heather
>>> 
>>> Customer Services Manager
>>> LiveCode Ltd
>>> www.livecode.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 17 Dec 2021, at 06:14, Pi Digital via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I will donate "aluminium" for them. I don't know where they got that.
>>>> 
>>>> Sir Humphry Davy, the same one responsible for the confusion in the
>> term/name. So, the same place as our American cousins.
>>>> 
>>>>> Oh, and don't forget Wales. They only have one sorta vowel, "y", and
>> they make do with random consonants when they run short.
>>>> They use a, e, o, u and I. W and Y are also considered vowels. They
>> don’t use K, Q, V or Z  Double L, D, F as well as ch, ph, rh, th and ng all
>> make consonant sounds. 29 ‘letters’ in total with 7 vowels.
>>>> 
>>>> But I get that you were only jesting ;)
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