Wednesday, 12 November 2008

How many syllables are in the word "hour"?

Not something I'd thought about until today, when trying to write a poem in a specific meter.

Think it's simple? It isn't, as this complex answer to that simple question proves. Said answer is long and quite technical, but so interesting that I wanted to share it.

Source: Yahoo! Answers

3 comments:

  1. Quite interesting, but frankly the answer is just "two".

    Or possibly "two, not one, but two, and you can shove it if you think otherwise".

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  2. I reckon it's one, cos posh people pronounce it "ahz" and if it were two they'd pronounce it "ah-ruz" or something.

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  3. But posh people are wrong.

    How do I know this?

    Because they disagree with me, and I'm right. That's how.

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