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[da]

Wouldn't it be cool to have a Boggle set made with the characters in the International Phonetic Alphabet?

ɸʉʙɐɹ!

d and I were just considering all of the vowel sounds that could go between n and t in English. There's a lot of them.

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[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

At least eleven words are pronounced nVt, where V is a vowel: gnat, net, knit, not, nut, newt, note, neat, night, Nate, naught.

Wow, that's a lot.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

See?

All 'cause I was going to go retrieve George the ferocious attack bear with a net, and someone in the bed who was closer to sleep than I got confused why a nut would help.

[dpolicar]

Who's Annete?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Eh, naught.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Also, happy solar revolution placeholder commemorative day.

Or birthday, if you celebrate that.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

And if you're pretentious like me, you might pronounce newt and Knute differently.