BARBARIC PAPAL PEPPER ASSASSIN TITILATION
are all words in which a combination of letters [ie., BAR in barbaric is repeated, but is pronounced differently the second time than the first.
1. Can you find any other examples ?
2. What causes the effect ?
The orginal word that inspired this Challenge was TRIBOTRICITY, but I am not sure whether the first TRI- is sounds like TRI in TRIBE or like TRI in TRIPLE ? Do you know ?
TRIBOTRICITY - is electricity produced by friction [which is Greek; immediately suggesting a new phobia - see challenge]
Vivisect?
Is it like Vi-VUR-sect, or is that just the New Zealand accent mangling it?
-Caleb "Boutrous Boutros, How The Devil Are You?" Wells
--Then Ares strode out, with shield and spear,
--A mighty warrior to strike fear into our hearts.
--But we just shot him, just like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
--And all the rest fled.
vivisect
My Oxford Concise Dict [Oz Ed 1987] gives the same pronunciation to both 'vi's in vivisect, which I would think is correct.
But what about vivid ?
Damn accent.
Damn accent. HEArtBrEAker?
-Caleb "Insert humorous quote here" Wells
--Then Ares strode out, with shield and spear,
--A mighty warrior to strike fear into our hearts.
--But we just shot him, just like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
--And all the rest fled.
And...
SaTIsfacTIon
-Caleb "Gets his answers from his music collection" Wells
--Then Ares strode out, with shield and spear,
--A mighty warrior to strike fear into our hearts.
--But we just shot him, just like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
--And all the rest fled.
Does...
Does the title have infromation, though?
Caleb "We don't like existentialists around here" Wells
--Then Ares strode out, with shield and spear,
--A mighty warrior to strike fear into our hearts.
--But we just shot him, just like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
--And all the rest fled.