How many syllabols in the word orange?

Answer 1

1

A fair question if you cannot grasp what a syllable is. If you think of syllables as a series of sounds such as Wa and Ter then put the two syllables together you get WaTer (water). Orange is the same. It is a two syllable word or-anj. it is a three syllable word if you are describing the taste of something as orangey. Syllable is also a three syllable word Syl-la-bul.

I hope the questioner now looks for all the single and multi syllable words they can find in the English language. The longer the word and the more syllables they contain the more difficult are they to say and read.

Antidisestablishmentarianism was the invention of pseuodo interlectuals and has ten syllables and in my view should be either hyphenated or obliterated. We are not German and we do not need to connect words like they do. Here is a twenty syllable word recently used in Germany: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz that doesn't exactly trip off the tongue and all to express a law having to do with British beef (Rindfleisch) and the so-called "mad cow disease." My single syllable word to replace it would be 'NUTS'.

Aren't we lucky to have a simple language that rolls off the tongue and rules on how they used to make ourselves understood.