Talk:brutish

How many syllables are there in the word brutish?

By what logic -- (or perhaps it was [more like] by some egregious mistake?) -- was the word brutish placed in the category of "English 3-syllable words" -- ? --

Was it perhaps something that occurred between the revision of "16:21, 8 April 2014" and the revision of "01:57, 24 May 2014"? (See the DIFF listing of the change between those versions, at https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=brutish&type=revision&diff=26766086&oldid=26242559 ...)

IMHO It seems far more appropriate to call it a TWO-syllable word. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 16:18, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Disclosure and comment

Disclosure:

What I do not know about IPA (and Appendix:English pronunciation#Vowels, etc.) would fill a book.

Comment:

Could this issue possibly be caused by (or related to) the fact that only a British English ("UK") pronunciation [character string] -- (namely, "/ˈbɹʊut.ɪʃ/") -- is shown?

(... and such "UK" pronunciations tend to render the letter "u" like [the way I would say] the word "you" ... which might account for [this is a guess...] the "double" [?] vowel -- ["ʊu"] -- in the pronunciation string ["/ˈbɹʊut.ɪʃ/"].) (right?)

(... and -- [please forgive me if this too is wrong and/or "off topic"] -- maybe it even relates to the fact that, in British English, the word for subway ["tube"] is typically pronounced like [the wayIwould say] "chube"?)

Thanks for listening. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 17:50, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

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Responded at Wiktionary:Tea room/2019/September#("attention":) questions / comments recently added to a "Talk:" page.  Fixed.  --Lambiam 19:58, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! for fixing it ... via "THIS" edit.

 "case closed" --Mike Schwartz (talk) 05:28, 15 December 2020 (UTC)