Winter's day

[pjt33]

Strength. One syllable, one vowel.

[laepelba]

Originally Posted by irmamar

I thought it was "gin tonic" with "drunk" accent

- W(rrr)aittter! Annnnother chthonic, pleassse!

Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by irmamar

It must be easy, but not for me

But... chthonic? Does it exist?

Of course it does! An adjective relating to the Earth.

Originally Posted by laepelba

so I'm not sure that Perikles is playing fair when he uses that as an example of an English word with a bunch of consonants in one syllable................

Hay, I did say that it didn't count It (of course) derives from Greek χθόνος which has two consonants at the beginning. But you need two consonants in the Roman alphabet for χ=ch and two for θ=th
So it really only counts as 2 consonants.

By the way, this is the reason that you get 'h' letters in English words which don't get pronounced, because they derive from Greek consonants which need 2 letters in the Latin alphabet. So (Jesus) Christ from χριστος

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by irmamar

But... chthonic? Does it exist?

Actually, I have just found the same word contained in a word in Spanish: autóctonos except that the spelling has been modified so that the ch-> c and the th-> t.

This simplified spelling hides a lot of things, for example tanatorio where the first t hides a th but the second one doesn't.

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

If my memory serves me right we say:
Summer´s day
winter´s day
spring day
fall/autumn day

Is that correct

The first one is right.

[hermit]

chthonic counts - good one.