{"id":3440,"date":"2016-03-20T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T14:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2016-03-20T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:48:50","slug":"how-many-syllables-in-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/03\/20\/how-many-syllables-in-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"How many syllables in “squirrel”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was browsing around yesterday to see if there are any new comic books that I need to look out for. (For values of “need.”) I’m most excited about volume 1 of Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones’s Howard The Duck<\/i><\/a>, but that’s not out until May. Volume 2 of Ryan North and Erica Henderson’s Unbeatable Squirrel Girl<\/i> is out already, though. With the subtitle, “Squirrel You Know It’s True”<\/p>\n

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Huh, I thought. “Squirrel You Know It’s True” sounds like a play on Milli Vanilli’s 1989 hit “Girl You Know It’s True”<\/a>. It’s pretty close, but it would be better if “squirrel” sounded more like…OH WAIT.<\/p>\n

I pronounce “squirrel” with two syllables, but some people pronounce it with only one, to rhyme with “pearl” or “twirl”1<\/a><\/sup>, and if you do that then it’s a perfect piece of wordplay. In fact, the name “Squirrel Girl” becomes a rhyme in itself! And the subtitle of volume 1, “Squirrel Power” makes much more sense now too! I’m going to have to go re-read it to see what else I missed.<\/p>\n

Lucky 10,000<\/a><\/p>\n

1<\/sup> Of course, in some Scottish accents the words “pearl” and “twirl” don’t rhyme with each other, and are pronounced with two syllables. And sometimes the word “girl” is pronounced as “gurrull”. (Epenthesis<\/a>.) Actually, that makes “squirrel gurrull” rhyme again. Huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was browsing around yesterday to see if there are any new comic books that I need to look out for. (For values of “need.”) I’m most excited about volume 1 of Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones’s Howard The Duck, but that’s not out until May. Volume 2 of Ryan North and Erica Henderson’s Unbeatable … <\/p>\n

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