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ruzuzu commented on the word convowel
The pattern of consonants and vowels in any given word.
Does anyone remember who coined this? I know mollusque and hernesheir have done a lot with these.
November 6, 2010
marky commented on the word convowel
I'm very curious what the point of this is, it's very interesting to me.. seems to not particularly have to do with phonetics but spelling of the english language .. anyone want to shed light?
what sparked the idea?
November 7, 2010
marky commented on the word convowel
convowel tags .. something like this could easily be done automatically with a simple computer script, and then cross referenced in a database to automatically add tags, but still not sure what the benefit would be. spelling in the english language is quite chaotic and tricky..
November 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word convowel
See comments on cvcvcccvcvcv.
November 7, 2010
mollusque commented on the word convowel
It looks like I coined it, so I'll put it on my inflicted list.
November 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the word convowel
We reached 2500 convowel patterns today.
December 5, 2010
TankHughes commented on the word convowel
Hey marky- I started tagging words with 'vcccv' patterns in January 2010. I've also tagged words as ch sounds like k, rh, and one-dollar words. I know C and V are used academically for sounds and not letters, and I made some linguists mad, but I wasn't trying to record the sounds, and I don't know what other system I might have chosen. I think organizing things which appear unrelated can bring out new features that have not been visible or considered. Mendeleev, Linneaus and Roget are my heroes. I'm not saying I accomplished anything with this idea yet, but tagging words in this way (which mollusque called convowel) was very cathartic for me at the time and I'm happy I had wordnik as an outlet. I've been thinking about possible uses for this list recently. No success yet, but you can watch me flail on tankhughes.com.
December 10, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word convowel
I started tagging convowel patterns such as cvvvc, ccvcc, cvcvcvc, ccvcccvcccvcc, etc. as "palindromous pattern" over a year ago.
December 11, 2011