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why is SEVEN the only one with two syllables?
Just noticed this recently aside from the "zero" because my 16 month old daughter is starting to count 1 to 10 and she always skips 7. I theorized it was because of the multiple syllables. Another possibility is she likes it when we correct her as she starts laughing everytime we say 7.
Side note-Oddly, she says 10 with a southern accent. Not sure where that came from.
She says "tin"? I HATE that they can't fucking distinguish that vowel down here. And that they say "Oal" instead of "oil."
And of course, the ever popular /nuke-you-lar/... weren't the people who say this taught to sound out words when they read? N-U-C-L-E-A-R - there is no vowel between the 'C' and the 'L', and there
is an 'E' after it. Hell, even if these people said /new/-/clear/ it'd at least have some relationship to the spelling.
[EDIT: Maybe this belongs in the grammar thread....]