Ciekawostka: "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel

Evidence: 73 • authority: 72

English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel letters ⟨a, e, i, o, u⟩. The letter ⟨y⟩ is largely recognized as being a vowel in specific contexts, though often disregarded when talking about vowelless words, which typically focus on the absence of the main five. A word with ⟨y⟩, but no other vowel letters, may thus be considered vowelless in this context. To a lesser degree, the letter ⟨w⟩ can act as a vowel in a narrow subset of loanwords. Outside of abbreviations, there are a handful of words in English that do not have vowels, either because the vowel sounds are not written with vowel letters or because the words themselves are pronounced without…

Evidence: 59 • authority: 72

The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages may allow word formation of theoretically limitless length in certain contexts. An example common to many languages is the term for a very remote ancestor, "great-great-.....-grandfather", where the prefix "great-" may be repeated any number of times. The examples of "longest words" within the "Agglutinative languages" section may be nowhere near clos…

Evidence: 59 • authority: 72

The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of "word" and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots or formed by coinage and construction. Additionally, comparisons are complicated because place names may be considered words, technical terms may be arbitrarily long, and the addition of suffixes and prefixes may extend the length of words to create grammatically correct but unused or novel words. Different dictionaries include and omit different words. The length of a word may also be understood in multiple ways. Most commonly, length is based on orthography (conventional spelling rules) and counting the number of written letters. Alternate…

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What is the Longest Word in the English Language? What About Yiddish?

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Speech Intelligibility of Moroccan Speakers of English: The Interaction of Word Stress and Vowel Reduction

Evidence: 58 • authority: 80

Effects of Word Stress on Vowel Duration and Vowel Quality in the Speech of Korean Learners of English

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English with Brazilian beat: Brazilian English word stress and vowel reduction

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