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I have no idea what this is good for when English are actually two different languages - spoken form has quite little what to do with written one. One can write that word also "sqwirld", it is just "another written English". (But, do you know, that quite long words without vowels exist in some languages? Even in the languages with practically phonetic transcription.) [68.94.242.235 20:10, 23 Sep 2004]
I'm think there are two syllables in squirrelled. [195.92.194.12 19:43, 23 Sep 2004]
Im Canadian, and I would concur with the the one syllable pronounciation, it would be like Skwurlld with the r-l combo being pushed into a slight extenstion over the second L. ( West Coast Canadian ) Bob535 03:16, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What's the mystery? If you pronounce "squirrel" as one syllable, you'll pronounce "squirrelled" as one syllable. Enough people do the former: Merriam Websters Collegiate offers both a one-syllable and a two-syllable pronunciation for "squirrel". - Nunh-huh 04:16, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just in case anybody (Canadian etc.) is wondering where the "two syllable claim" comes from, let me explain that British English is one of the dialects in which squirrelled has two syllables. -- Heron 09:20, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
skwi - ruhld, and even that's difficult. In some dialects maybe, but not the one I speak. It's silly to give it one when it should be two.
Oh look, it's a skwurl. I'd think it was some kind of
I don't wish to be willfully perverse in raising this alternative, but to my untrained ear there are clearly 3 separate sounds in squirreled.
Sound one: scwi Sound two: rell Sound Three: duh
You're right, Bodnotbod (Gawd bless yer, mite), and our own article on syllable agrees. A syllable has a vowel or quasi-vowel in the middle, with optional consonants on either side. However, from a purely phonotactic point of view, this does make it hard to justify calling squirrelled a single syllable, unless you classify the whole of uirrelle as a single quasi-vowel. Perhaps our "syllable" article needs to say that the definition of a syllable depends on the dialect of the speaker, if this is true. -- Heron 13:05, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What you think you say and what you actually say is usually different, so everyone who has commented here (including me) is probably wrong about how they pronounce this word. Even if one of us were to record it and post it, that pronunciation would not be normal speech, because we would be thinking about it and saying it more slowly and purposefully than in normal speech. Adam Bishop 16:40, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Well. I'm certainly not Canadian, and I pronounce it "skworld". Rick K 06:15, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
I would also like to add that I pronounce it "skworld" and I'm in Seattle, Washington.-- Trypsin 08:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm a Minnesotan and I pronounce squirreled "squir-relled" or in IPA, [skʷəɹ.ɫd], with two syllables, but I might pronounce it as one syllable when speaking quickly. Gandalf1491 21:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Unsurprisingly, each long word contains multiple digraphs and trigraphs. That is, multiple letters are used as part of a single grapheme (e.g., spr).
This is incorrect, at least from any definition of "grapheme", "digraph", or "trigraph" that I've encountered.
A grapheme (as defined by David Crystal's Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics, and as used by general convention, I believe) is the "minimal contrastive unit in a writing system." So, a letter (e.g. "A", "p", etc.) is a grapheme, but multiple letters together (as in the given example of "spr") are still multiple graphemes
Also, for more than one grapheme/letter to be a digraph or trigraph, they have to represent a single sound. So, ll in "squirrelled" and ch in "scraunched" (among others) are digraphs, but there are no trigraphs in either one. There is no sequence of three letters/graphemes in either word which makes a single sound. EDIT: In my dialect at least; maybe I'm missing something that would be different in other dialects.
-- JoshRaspberry 04:02, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
If we accept "skworld", what about other longer words that some dialect pronouces as one syllable? I know it isn't more letters, but some folk pronounce "Birmingham" as "brum" which reduces the syllable count from 3 to 1. And presumably if you have suffered the trials of visiting the place, you have been "Birminghamed" or "brumd"? --- SGBailey 14:01, 2004 Sep 24 (UTC)
askoxford.com suprisingly makes no mention of squirrelled when they answer the question on their site.
What are the arguments against broughammed? The article just says it's "questionable on other grounds". Could we get some specifics? Factitious 01:51, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
No to divert attention away from the war over how many syllables "squirreled" has [I say it depends on which side of the pond you are: in the US/Canada it would be one ("squirled") while in the remainder of the English speaking world it would be 2 ("squir-relled", also 11 letters!]...
...but how about "Schmaltzed"? It is mentioned in the OED according to one reference, but strangely is absent from Websters. Many yiddsish words are now in common usage.
The longest word with one syllable is "grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" and brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
I have to question this one. Quarreled is pronounced Kwo-rəlled. That's definitely 2 syllables. I tried it in American and I just managed to get rid of the 2nd syllable by dropping the r as well. Can somone outside the UK tell me that they pronounce it as one syllable? Big Moira 00:42, 18 November 2006 (UTC) very good :p
I too was drawn to this page by the apparent revelation that quarreled contains only one syllable...
It most certainly does not - it is pronounced /kwɔrəld/(or /kwɔːrəld/), and anyone who says otherwise is either a fool, or is suffering from some sort of speech impediment... N^O^el 05:32, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm gonna remove it Big Moira 21:52, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
As an individual taught strict American Midwestern enunciation in the mid 1950s I can vouch that -ed was often taught to be pronounced as a separate syllable within my family. The obvious caveat being that -ed words, as spoken rather than as taught, may have been very clipped and precise but not pronounced as an extra syllable. But the teaching was unambiguous. I now have a seven year old and I had been teaching him to pronounce -ed as a separate syllable, passing on my own understanding of the proper enunciation of words. Having read the entries on syllables I've since stopped and am trying to undo that cultural heritage. HeitzsoHeitzso 21:28, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The issue with this page derives from the idea that a grapheme (essentially a letter,) represents a phoneme (sound.) While this is true in basic terms, e.g. /k/ is represented by <k> (for the purpose of this discussion, we will presume that /k/ is one sound when in reality it can be realised as a number of different sounds, or allophones,) the relationship between grapheme and phoneme is not so simple and therefore claiming a word is longer than another based of the number of graphemes it has becomes somewhat trivial. We must remember that English is written in the Roman alphabet which was created to write Latin, which has a different phoneme inventory, a different set of rules for morphophemic structure, and in fact is not directly related to English. Further to this, when the Roman alphabet was adopted (before the great vowel change,) English itself had a very different phoneme inventory, and the standardisation of the spelling system leaves us with a representation of how the English language used to sound. Many words should now be read as one word, rather than as a sum of their parts. E.g. <Knights> is pronounced (British RP) /naɪts/ and not /knɪghts/ (which would the pronounciation on the assumption that <k> = /k/, <n> = /n/, etc.,) which proves the difficulty in describing word length.
So it looks to me like the references here are just attesting to the fact that the listing is a word, not to it being the longest word. It seems to me that this 'list of longest one syllable words' therefore constitutes original research. I would even argue that it is inherently original research unless someone can produce a notable third party source where such a list is published. Any comments? Locke9k ( talk) 19:26, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
According to this article, schtroumpfed is a French word. The fact that it was used once by one English writer doesn't make it an English word. Or am I missing something? DoctorKubla ( talk) 19:10, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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...has too many moving parts; it's time to take this to the Talk: page. Here is the impugned section:
Onomatopoeic monosyllables such as interjections may be extended without limit to represent a long drawn-out sound or utterance. [1] [2] For example, Yann Martel's 1995 novel Self includes a 45-letter Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and a 35-letter Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh; [3] Portnoy's Complaint has the 100-letter Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh. [4] [5]
- ^ a b Grant, Jeff (1 November 2014). "Long one-syllable words". Word Ways. The Free Library.
- ^ Stange, Ulrike (2009). The Acquisition of Interjections in Early Childhood. diplom.de. p. 43. ISBN 978-3-8366-2481-7. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
Phenomena like lengthening ... can easily be represented in writing by the accumulation of letters, e.g. Oooooooow! Jeeeesus! Wooooooow!, etc.; O'Conner, Patricia T.; Kellerman, Stewart (6 June 2013). "Eeeeeeeek!". Grammarphobia. Retrieved 5 May 2020.And if you'd like to elongate it to show that it's drawn out, just repeat letters (with no extra hyphens): "ahhhh." "hmmmm," "uuhh-oohh," and "eeeeeeeek!"; Jing, Yi (May 2017). "English interjections as a word class: A tri-stratal description" (PDF). Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 7 (1): 128.as reflection of the lengthened vowels or consonants, certain letters in interjections can be repeated (e.g., ooh, shh)- ^ Martel, Yann (1996-04-23). Self: a novel. Alfred A. Knopf Canada. pp. 215–216. ISBN 978-0-394-28160-5. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. Ahhhhhhh. Ohjustonemorepiece! Ahhhhhhhhh such rapture. Amen!- ^ According to Jeff Grant, in a 1967 version the interjection is 234 letters long. [1]
- ^ Roth, Philip (1969). Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House. p. 274. LCCN 69-16414. Retrieved 5 May 2020 – via Internet Archive.
What we have here is the following assertions:
I'm not sure whether Drmies is
Rather than address all the various possibilities, I would appreciate it if Drmies could let me know what the problem is. jnestorius( talk) 08:40, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
As for that Jeff Grant article, which I mistakenly categorized as a blog because it was so incorrectly verified (with "Free Library" as the publication venue, turns out it's actually more than that: it is an article published in Word Ways. So a more correct citation is Grant, Jeff (2014). "Long one-syllable words". Word Ways. 47 (4): 293–96.. So, that's all good, in your favor, but what you fail to cite from that article is the following, "let's disallow drawn-out monosyllabic noises and utterances such as the 234-letter cry of anguish (230 A's followed by 4 H's) on the last page of Portnoy's Complaint (1967) by Philip Roth." In other words, the very source you cite to prove they should be included states they should NOT be included. That these utterances occur in the words you cite is not what I'm questioning; what I'm saying is that you shouldn't include them in the first place. The instance from Yann Martel lacks secondary sourcing (in other words, no one seems to have noticed that a. it should be a one-syllable word and that b. Martel's having one is remarkable). Your reference to Grammarphobia and the Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics merely establish that you can write long exclamations by adding more letters, which is not germane here.
What you can have is something like "Onomatopoeic expressions like Roth's AAAAHH are not considered one-syllable words" with a citation to Jeff Grant. Drmies ( talk) 15:58, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
I did some research and it looks like, despite it looking like it should be four or so syllables, halfpennyworth is one syllable, at least in British English. Collins Dictionary and Merriam-Webster are among my sources for this. Kelvinnkat ( talk) 03:06, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
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I have no idea what this is good for when English are actually two different languages - spoken form has quite little what to do with written one. One can write that word also "sqwirld", it is just "another written English". (But, do you know, that quite long words without vowels exist in some languages? Even in the languages with practically phonetic transcription.) [68.94.242.235 20:10, 23 Sep 2004]
I'm think there are two syllables in squirrelled. [195.92.194.12 19:43, 23 Sep 2004]
Im Canadian, and I would concur with the the one syllable pronounciation, it would be like Skwurlld with the r-l combo being pushed into a slight extenstion over the second L. ( West Coast Canadian ) Bob535 03:16, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What's the mystery? If you pronounce "squirrel" as one syllable, you'll pronounce "squirrelled" as one syllable. Enough people do the former: Merriam Websters Collegiate offers both a one-syllable and a two-syllable pronunciation for "squirrel". - Nunh-huh 04:16, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just in case anybody (Canadian etc.) is wondering where the "two syllable claim" comes from, let me explain that British English is one of the dialects in which squirrelled has two syllables. -- Heron 09:20, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
skwi - ruhld, and even that's difficult. In some dialects maybe, but not the one I speak. It's silly to give it one when it should be two.
Oh look, it's a skwurl. I'd think it was some kind of
I don't wish to be willfully perverse in raising this alternative, but to my untrained ear there are clearly 3 separate sounds in squirreled.
Sound one: scwi Sound two: rell Sound Three: duh
You're right, Bodnotbod (Gawd bless yer, mite), and our own article on syllable agrees. A syllable has a vowel or quasi-vowel in the middle, with optional consonants on either side. However, from a purely phonotactic point of view, this does make it hard to justify calling squirrelled a single syllable, unless you classify the whole of uirrelle as a single quasi-vowel. Perhaps our "syllable" article needs to say that the definition of a syllable depends on the dialect of the speaker, if this is true. -- Heron 13:05, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What you think you say and what you actually say is usually different, so everyone who has commented here (including me) is probably wrong about how they pronounce this word. Even if one of us were to record it and post it, that pronunciation would not be normal speech, because we would be thinking about it and saying it more slowly and purposefully than in normal speech. Adam Bishop 16:40, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Well. I'm certainly not Canadian, and I pronounce it "skworld". Rick K 06:15, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
I would also like to add that I pronounce it "skworld" and I'm in Seattle, Washington.-- Trypsin 08:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm a Minnesotan and I pronounce squirreled "squir-relled" or in IPA, [skʷəɹ.ɫd], with two syllables, but I might pronounce it as one syllable when speaking quickly. Gandalf1491 21:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Unsurprisingly, each long word contains multiple digraphs and trigraphs. That is, multiple letters are used as part of a single grapheme (e.g., spr).
This is incorrect, at least from any definition of "grapheme", "digraph", or "trigraph" that I've encountered.
A grapheme (as defined by David Crystal's Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics, and as used by general convention, I believe) is the "minimal contrastive unit in a writing system." So, a letter (e.g. "A", "p", etc.) is a grapheme, but multiple letters together (as in the given example of "spr") are still multiple graphemes
Also, for more than one grapheme/letter to be a digraph or trigraph, they have to represent a single sound. So, ll in "squirrelled" and ch in "scraunched" (among others) are digraphs, but there are no trigraphs in either one. There is no sequence of three letters/graphemes in either word which makes a single sound. EDIT: In my dialect at least; maybe I'm missing something that would be different in other dialects.
-- JoshRaspberry 04:02, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
If we accept "skworld", what about other longer words that some dialect pronouces as one syllable? I know it isn't more letters, but some folk pronounce "Birmingham" as "brum" which reduces the syllable count from 3 to 1. And presumably if you have suffered the trials of visiting the place, you have been "Birminghamed" or "brumd"? --- SGBailey 14:01, 2004 Sep 24 (UTC)
askoxford.com suprisingly makes no mention of squirrelled when they answer the question on their site.
What are the arguments against broughammed? The article just says it's "questionable on other grounds". Could we get some specifics? Factitious 01:51, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
No to divert attention away from the war over how many syllables "squirreled" has [I say it depends on which side of the pond you are: in the US/Canada it would be one ("squirled") while in the remainder of the English speaking world it would be 2 ("squir-relled", also 11 letters!]...
...but how about "Schmaltzed"? It is mentioned in the OED according to one reference, but strangely is absent from Websters. Many yiddsish words are now in common usage.
The longest word with one syllable is "grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" and brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
I have to question this one. Quarreled is pronounced Kwo-rəlled. That's definitely 2 syllables. I tried it in American and I just managed to get rid of the 2nd syllable by dropping the r as well. Can somone outside the UK tell me that they pronounce it as one syllable? Big Moira 00:42, 18 November 2006 (UTC) very good :p
I too was drawn to this page by the apparent revelation that quarreled contains only one syllable...
It most certainly does not - it is pronounced /kwɔrəld/(or /kwɔːrəld/), and anyone who says otherwise is either a fool, or is suffering from some sort of speech impediment... N^O^el 05:32, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm gonna remove it Big Moira 21:52, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
As an individual taught strict American Midwestern enunciation in the mid 1950s I can vouch that -ed was often taught to be pronounced as a separate syllable within my family. The obvious caveat being that -ed words, as spoken rather than as taught, may have been very clipped and precise but not pronounced as an extra syllable. But the teaching was unambiguous. I now have a seven year old and I had been teaching him to pronounce -ed as a separate syllable, passing on my own understanding of the proper enunciation of words. Having read the entries on syllables I've since stopped and am trying to undo that cultural heritage. HeitzsoHeitzso 21:28, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The issue with this page derives from the idea that a grapheme (essentially a letter,) represents a phoneme (sound.) While this is true in basic terms, e.g. /k/ is represented by <k> (for the purpose of this discussion, we will presume that /k/ is one sound when in reality it can be realised as a number of different sounds, or allophones,) the relationship between grapheme and phoneme is not so simple and therefore claiming a word is longer than another based of the number of graphemes it has becomes somewhat trivial. We must remember that English is written in the Roman alphabet which was created to write Latin, which has a different phoneme inventory, a different set of rules for morphophemic structure, and in fact is not directly related to English. Further to this, when the Roman alphabet was adopted (before the great vowel change,) English itself had a very different phoneme inventory, and the standardisation of the spelling system leaves us with a representation of how the English language used to sound. Many words should now be read as one word, rather than as a sum of their parts. E.g. <Knights> is pronounced (British RP) /naɪts/ and not /knɪghts/ (which would the pronounciation on the assumption that <k> = /k/, <n> = /n/, etc.,) which proves the difficulty in describing word length.
So it looks to me like the references here are just attesting to the fact that the listing is a word, not to it being the longest word. It seems to me that this 'list of longest one syllable words' therefore constitutes original research. I would even argue that it is inherently original research unless someone can produce a notable third party source where such a list is published. Any comments? Locke9k ( talk) 19:26, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
According to this article, schtroumpfed is a French word. The fact that it was used once by one English writer doesn't make it an English word. Or am I missing something? DoctorKubla ( talk) 19:10, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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@ Drmies: reversion edit summary...
...has too many moving parts; it's time to take this to the Talk: page. Here is the impugned section:
Onomatopoeic monosyllables such as interjections may be extended without limit to represent a long drawn-out sound or utterance. [1] [2] For example, Yann Martel's 1995 novel Self includes a 45-letter Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and a 35-letter Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh; [3] Portnoy's Complaint has the 100-letter Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh. [4] [5]
- ^ a b Grant, Jeff (1 November 2014). "Long one-syllable words". Word Ways. The Free Library.
- ^ Stange, Ulrike (2009). The Acquisition of Interjections in Early Childhood. diplom.de. p. 43. ISBN 978-3-8366-2481-7. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
Phenomena like lengthening ... can easily be represented in writing by the accumulation of letters, e.g. Oooooooow! Jeeeesus! Wooooooow!, etc.; O'Conner, Patricia T.; Kellerman, Stewart (6 June 2013). "Eeeeeeeek!". Grammarphobia. Retrieved 5 May 2020.And if you'd like to elongate it to show that it's drawn out, just repeat letters (with no extra hyphens): "ahhhh." "hmmmm," "uuhh-oohh," and "eeeeeeeek!"; Jing, Yi (May 2017). "English interjections as a word class: A tri-stratal description" (PDF). Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 7 (1): 128.as reflection of the lengthened vowels or consonants, certain letters in interjections can be repeated (e.g., ooh, shh)- ^ Martel, Yann (1996-04-23). Self: a novel. Alfred A. Knopf Canada. pp. 215–216. ISBN 978-0-394-28160-5. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. Ahhhhhhh. Ohjustonemorepiece! Ahhhhhhhhh such rapture. Amen!- ^ According to Jeff Grant, in a 1967 version the interjection is 234 letters long. [1]
- ^ Roth, Philip (1969). Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House. p. 274. LCCN 69-16414. Retrieved 5 May 2020 – via Internet Archive.
What we have here is the following assertions:
I'm not sure whether Drmies is
Rather than address all the various possibilities, I would appreciate it if Drmies could let me know what the problem is. jnestorius( talk) 08:40, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
As for that Jeff Grant article, which I mistakenly categorized as a blog because it was so incorrectly verified (with "Free Library" as the publication venue, turns out it's actually more than that: it is an article published in Word Ways. So a more correct citation is Grant, Jeff (2014). "Long one-syllable words". Word Ways. 47 (4): 293–96.. So, that's all good, in your favor, but what you fail to cite from that article is the following, "let's disallow drawn-out monosyllabic noises and utterances such as the 234-letter cry of anguish (230 A's followed by 4 H's) on the last page of Portnoy's Complaint (1967) by Philip Roth." In other words, the very source you cite to prove they should be included states they should NOT be included. That these utterances occur in the words you cite is not what I'm questioning; what I'm saying is that you shouldn't include them in the first place. The instance from Yann Martel lacks secondary sourcing (in other words, no one seems to have noticed that a. it should be a one-syllable word and that b. Martel's having one is remarkable). Your reference to Grammarphobia and the Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics merely establish that you can write long exclamations by adding more letters, which is not germane here.
What you can have is something like "Onomatopoeic expressions like Roth's AAAAHH are not considered one-syllable words" with a citation to Jeff Grant. Drmies ( talk) 15:58, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
I did some research and it looks like, despite it looking like it should be four or so syllables, halfpennyworth is one syllable, at least in British English. Collins Dictionary and Merriam-Webster are among my sources for this. Kelvinnkat ( talk) 03:06, 23 August 2022 (UTC)