Talk:squirrel

Found in phrases

"Found in phrases." Could we be a bite clearer than that, or simply remove that? - -sche (discuss) 07:10, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

I think they mean 'found in dubious "phrasal verbs"', like squirrel around. DCDuring TALK 11:33, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

UK pronunciation

The UK pronunciation /ˈskwɜːl/ looks like it's just been copied from the American pronunciation and made non-rhotic. Is this really used in British English? I've never heard it, it's not RP and I doubt it's in any British print dictionary. — 146.179.8.133 16:16, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July–October 2012

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squirrel

Rfv-sense: "{{golf}} The completion of a hole with a score of nine (9)." Seems a bit squirrelly to me... Chuck Entz (talk) 07:27, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

'"scored a squirrel" + golf' doesn't find anything relevant, on Google Books, Google Groups or even Google Search. Established golfing terms like "eagle", "birdie" and "bogey" all get thousands of hits for the same sort of search. Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:44, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 07:11, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Syllabic /l/ in AmE?

Is there a source for the syllabic /l/ in the pronunciations provided for AmE and CanE? In GA, a two-syllable pronunciation sounds awkward and stilted, a more standard one would be the monosyllabic /ˈskwɝl/. Auvon (talk) 02:36, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

To me, it sounds like there's a continuum from a single-syllable to a two-syllable pronunciation, with the same speaker often using both, depending on how carefully they're trying to enunciate. I'm sure there are even some people who make the second syllable rhyme with bell, though most of us would find that silly. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:06, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

British pronunciation

We only have [skwɪɹəl]. Can't it be [skwɪə̯l] as well? I don't mean *[skwəːl], which would be the American pronunciation in a British form (as mentioned above). I mean like "squeerl", rhyming with real for those whose pronounce it "reerl". But I'm not a native speaker, so I may be wrong.

I am also not a speaker of British English (although I do speak a form of English that is not fully rhotic. Especially when in regard to the pronunciation of words in an unstressed manner and in unstressed positions), but from what I understand, a pronunciation like the one that you describe for that word would be nonstandard. A similar kind of pronunciation, the pronunciation of warrior as /wɒ(ː).jə/ / /wɔɪ.ə/ is nonstandard, and (if heard at all) is really heard only amongst those that are not very educated, and that speak broad, particularly urban, proletariat dialects. Tharthan (talk) 05:12, 24 February 2019 (UTC)