(Untitled)

[da_lj]

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.

Comments

[da_lj]

I just had too much fun with http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/ .

Yes, I should be asleep.

[poeticalpanther]

This would be a game I'd clean up at. Consequently, I think it simply must be made. :)

[thingo]

The legal "words" would change a lot as you moved around the earth, and would be subject to debate among players in the same game. At least in Scrabble there are basically just two possible dictionaries. Still, it might be fun.

[poeticalpanther]

I do understand that - I'm a linguist by profession, and use the IPA in my everyday work, hence my claim. :)

[madcaptenor]

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]

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]

Eh, naught.

[madcaptenor]

bVt also has a lot.

[melted_snowball]

That one has typically been the one I've used in the past.

(See, I was going to make this post just now, but it appears it was made by someone else while I was asleep...)

[da_lj]

...ɒ Muffin!

[chezmax]

*snort*

[dcseain]

Ohh, that could be fun, esp seeing as vowels in my native dialect are a long way from US Standard.

[merle_]

Don't give them ideas. They might come up with Unicode Boggle.

"Oh, great, an interrobang. And I don't even know what language that symbol is from! Looks like another tie game with zero points all around."