The words "mere" and "meer" both exist but one is generally an adjective and the other a noun.
anyone here from England? or know the differences between US and British English? If so, is meerly a word or slang?
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anyone here from England? or know the differences between US and British English? If so, is meerly a word or slang?
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The words "mere" and "meer" both exist but one is generally an adjective and the other a noun.
We use merely.
"It was merely a suggestion, not an order!"
"I was merely saying I don't like DT. I didn't say he was an idiot" ![]()
I have never seen meerly written down
Mark
First def. listed is "var. of Mir sb 1", which is 'var. of meer' from the Arabic; better known to us as Emir etc.
Second is "meer(e): see mare 1, mayor, mere, more."
Youse is on your own from here.
I saw a British greeting card that used the term meerly. It said "You are not meerly any son..." It just did not seem right.
and a very good reason you'd not want to play Scrabble with a Welshman. ![]()
David in English it is. How many points for llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
Dafydd. ![]()
Most often, when you see people saying "How about x for Scrabble", it turns out that x has more than 15 letters, thus is impossible.
In theory, you can get 27 * the sum of the letter values if your new letters fill all three of the "3 times word value" places in the top, bottom or side row. With 2 of your new letters giving double value if they happen to be on the blue "2 times letter value". Plus 50 if there were 8 letters already (either stand alone or valid English words) and you added 7.
So depending on the language and the dictionary used, there is an absolute maximum for one turn. But it's quite unlikely that maximum did ever occur in a real game. I guess for English it's somewhere around 1000.
It even has it's own song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXKsQ2nbno
But to me, the pronunciation sounds more like the final utterances of a drowning man. ![]()
In any event, you would need to bring your own vowels to a Welsh Scrabble. The poor sods got none!
"Y" can be a vowel if it contains the only vowel sound in a syllable. An example is the word "byway". The first Y is considered to be a vowel. It's sound is the same as a long "I". I recall an argument that the W can also be a vowel in American english but I cannot provide examples. As I understand it, however, it has to do with diphthongs which are comprised of two vowels. If the W changes the sound of the official vowel, it becomes a vowel too. I didn't do that well in English classes. I'd never survive what you must have gone through.
Example here. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Welsh_pronunciation#Diphthongs
Dafydd.
Danny Devito will forever be known here as the gruff taxi cab dispatcher with a New York attitude in a comedy series. I found this while trying to find examples of the Welsh tongue. How accurate this is, I don't know. The Erse languages are another enigma. There's no way to read Scots and Irish out loud but somehow there's magic in what can be expressed by those who know the languages well.
A famed physicist told another, Hungarian, physicist (don't recall the names) that Hungarians were really men from Mars. Proof: They are highly intelligent and Hungary is surrounded by language groups that have no connection with it (therefore must be Martian).
Add irrelevancy: A FES from Georgia told me his language is most closely related to Syrian. Check the map. ![]()