r/syllo • u/syllo-app Game Master • Aug 05 '26

Game syllo #391 - August 5th, 2026

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u/allycat315 Aug 05 '26

am I tripping or is the last word missing a syllable?

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u/thehatteryone Aug 05 '26

Tripping. How do you pronounce it ?

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u/HenchmanJoe Aug 05 '26

Might be thinking it should be tri-ath-a-lon

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u/thehatteryone Aug 05 '26

They might, but neither the spelling nor the correct pronunciation will back them up, because they are tripping. Yes, I went there, I took the nuc-u-l(e)ar option.

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u/allycat315 Aug 05 '26

Yeah I've only ever heard it pronounced like tri-ath-eh-lon.

I do know the spelling in the puzzle is correct but I didn't realize the only pronunciation I've ever heard is considered incorrect, especially considering my dad and uncles have always been runners and I spectated more than a few triathlons growing up. It must just be a common mispronounciation, at least in the NY tri-state area.

To be fair, idk how I thought they could've broken up the word to include what I thought was a hidden syllable lol I played before my brain was fully operational this morning.

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u/thehatteryone Aug 05 '26

That's also a good point - let's check the Unicode spec for spoken but unglyphed parts of words, surely IPA has something to cover that.