/lit/ - Literature

>>8750147

It's three syllables:
ore neh ree

Burger here from the upper midwest. Usually it's two, "orn'ry" but I've heard it pronounced with three as well, "or-ner-y"

>>8750177
>Usually it's two, "orn'ry"

I wouldn't say this is typical usage. That would have to be some kind of vernacular in your region.

"Ornery" is most definitely three syllables. Consult any dictionary.

The word is just a corruption of "ordinary." I don't frankly know how it came into usage.

>>8750200
>The word is just a corruption of "ordinary." I don't frankly know how it came into usage.

I-Is this a troll?

>>8750147
It's a good and usefulness word that fits a distinct niche. My grandparents used to call me ornery when I acted up and it taught me man how lessons. Though apparently not enough since I'm talking to a bong frogposter.

>>8750245
When I was acting "ornery" my extended family would sing in unison "He's a huffer, he's a puffer, he's a long way from home, and if you don't like him just leave him alone".

Big source of emotional trauma for me.

>>8750285
Was that before or after they locked you in a closet and slowly stuffed poop under the door. Dank nug time lads. BOOM

How do syllables work in the English language?

>>8750177
>>8750200

in the south, at least Texas here its 2 syllables with a weird initial vowel that may drop the first r alltogether "aow(r)n-ree"

2 syllables john

>>8750147
it doesn't even sound like a word your average burger poster would use ever

>>8751231
It is definitely used a fair amount in the US and not really at all elsewhere. It's an old word though, it just stuck in the US and wetn out of fashion anywhere else.

I remember it gets used in the Adam Sandler film Water Boy since I had no idea what the fuck they were saying about alligators, toothbrushes and the medulla oblongata.

>>8750147
I like that word. It's a rare example of the beauty of spoken language in English.