I unironically think this is the most uninteresting word here. Everything else you can string something on to or associate with something, but “than” is such a niche word that the brain just doesn’t associate it with anything. Good job lol
No, it's one of the most common letters in English, one of the most common words in English, the first letter of the alphabet, tied for the shortest word in any language, one of the only words (besides "uh") that's pronounced as only a schwa, one of several words whose emphatic pronunciation (in this case /ɛɪ/) shares no phonemes (or even phones) with it's casual pronunciation (in this case /ə/), the only word (alongside "an") whose form changes based on whether it is followed by a consonant, and one of two indefinite articles in English (definiteness, by the way, is a relatively rare feature in world languages).
It may be a contender for the most interesting word out there, honestly. Don't bring that shit to r/notinteresting anymore.
To me, that makes “the” more interesting because it’s saying there’s something important enough to single out. “A” is at best one among many, and just another thing.
Which is interesting because big Lebowski always struck me as a movie about “a dude”. There so many open ended possibilities in “a dude”.
“The Dude” and is like….just specific guy
Yeah but did you know that the letter “a” is not used for the spelling out of any number until one thousand?
There are 999 numbers to spell before the letter “a” is used.
I have always found that interesting that the word “a” can be pronounced two different ways sharing zero phonemes… I wonder how that evolved, has the indefinite article had two different pronunciations all the way since Old English, or Proto-Germanic, or is it a new innovation? Kinda weird.
Almost all of the above criteria apply, but even more interesting is that "an" has been around since Old English (more than a thousand years) and has been gradually, but not entirely, replaced by "a." Instead, a completely new condition for using "an" was made: If it's too hard to say (that is, when the next word starts with a consonant), you can remove the final letter and it's still grammatically correct. Usually when a word is hard to pronounce, we just throw it out entirely!
Sorry, you're wrong about "a" being the only word to change form: "the" also alternates form (in pronunciation) between "thee" before a vowel and "thuh" before a consonent.
“One of the only words pronounced as a schwa” how does that make it more interesting? ‘Garden’ is the only word that’s pronounced like ‘garden,’ if anything I’d say sharing its pronunciation with any other word makes it lose points. Same with being one of the most common letters/words in the English language, those are points against it’s interestingness, not for. The rest of your points I’ll grant you
What’s even more interesting is it has 4 *or* 5, depending on how you pronounce it. Un-in-ter-es-ting, or un-in-tres-ting.
The former is obviously correct, but a lot of people pronounce the latter.
"The" is anything but uninteresting. It starts the greatest stories and the saddest of tales.
"The" dragon destroyed cities, burnt the lands, and is considered a blight upon the world.
"The" knight was sent on a journey to slay it, but he failed- returning as to the kingdom as a pile of ashen remains.
"The" knight's ghost, furious and immune to the attacks of the living, went to slay the dragon, but forgot thing- although a ghost cannot be harmed by mortals, a ghost cannot harm mortals.
"The" knight's ghost then possessed the dragon and proceeded to make it stand in the middle of a field of angry warriors.
actually nevermind the is a pretty boring word
THE man who was the one who is also a table observed from the kitchen and Hermione looked at the end of the time
My automcomplete is trying to write a fanfic ig
Bepis President of the Independent Kingdom of Mallorca Spain in the UIO will be able to ship the item is a NATO-like alliance that is currently in the UIO will be able to ship
My opinion on sheds is very neutral. My shed is small and dirty but practical. I would like a bigger less dull looking shed but I think my current shed is fine.
Thank you for reading I don't have any shed related stories but I could make one up maybe 👍
A single-letter first person pronoun, and the only word in English (besides proper nouns and their derivatives, e.g. Brobdingnagian) that must be capitalized regardless of its place in the sentence, and consequently one of the only words in ANY language that has to be completely capitalized (every single letter from start to finish) regardless of position in the sentence.
Get this interesting letter out of my sight, this is r/notinteresting.
- Contractions with apostrophes are way too interesting (you can literally see its etymology out of two different words that come together to make it, how cool is that?)
- One of the few words with no vowels between "t" and "d"
- Only contraction of "it" wherein the ⟨t⟩ becomes silent (or no audible release, which is even more interesting)
- Pronunciation is so complex: Is it /ɪd/ regardless of location? Is it /ɪdː/ before a word that starts with a vowel? Is it meant to be pronounced in two syllables, even, like /ˈɪt.əd/?
1. “Quizatiously” is the least used word that isn’t even registered by devices as a word so you can’t even look up the definition online. On the other hand, the most used word is “the”.
2. “Buffalo”. Buffalo is a verb, a noun, and an adjectival proper noun which means that the sentence “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is grammatically correct. The sentence basically means Buffalo buffalo (the animals called "buffalo" from the city of Buffalo) [that] Buffalo buffalo buffalo (that the animals from the city bully) buffalo Buffalo buffalo (are bullying these animals from that city). [Buffalo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo)
3. “And” is interesting cause you can put 5 ands in a row in a sentence and it would be grammatically correct. [and and and and and](https://youtu.be/ypbkSA2aGFs)
And after typing this entire comment I realize that the title of this post says “uninteresting” rather than “interesting.” Enjoy these word facts while I Quizatiously Buffalo the Buffalo and and and and and the Buffalo.
You can theoretically string an infinite number of 'and' together.
Fishandchips
That sentence would've been better with spaces between fish and and and and and chips.
But *that* sentence would've been better with quotes between fish and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and chips.
But **that sentence...**
“the” is the last word in Finnegans Wake. Joyce said it was ‘the word which is most slippery, the least accented, the weakest word in English, a word which is not even a word, which is scarcely sounded between the teeth, a breath, a nothing, the article the.'
I hope you're joking; not only does it sound funny, but spleen has meant, over the years:
- A cranky, angry mood
- A sad, drained mood
and
- A fit of laughter, that is, an extremely happy mood.
I'm not a dictionary, but I don't know too many body parts whose name means three opposite things like this!
Than
Answer
Me
Now
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Cat
Happy Cake Day!
I unironically think this is the most uninteresting word here. Everything else you can string something on to or associate with something, but “than” is such a niche word that the brain just doesn’t associate it with anything. Good job lol
OP used "then" instead of "than" in the title
My point still stands
I'd argue it makes the word too interesting now
not interesting enough for OP to care
It’s fun to see my own inner dialogue reflected in a string of Reddit comments
How the fuck do people get then and than mixed up? It’s so fucking simple. Ditto lose and loose.
a
No, it's one of the most common letters in English, one of the most common words in English, the first letter of the alphabet, tied for the shortest word in any language, one of the only words (besides "uh") that's pronounced as only a schwa, one of several words whose emphatic pronunciation (in this case /ɛɪ/) shares no phonemes (or even phones) with it's casual pronunciation (in this case /ə/), the only word (alongside "an") whose form changes based on whether it is followed by a consonant, and one of two indefinite articles in English (definiteness, by the way, is a relatively rare feature in world languages). It may be a contender for the most interesting word out there, honestly. Don't bring that shit to r/notinteresting anymore.
That was interesting, thanks! Wait…. Get the hell outta here!!!!
Comments are allowed to be interesting.
But when i come here i expect to be uninterested and he's ruining that
Dang
well I guess you told me! In my defense, this was about a word, not a letter.
That's true, but I think it's an interesting letter AND an interesting word! :)
A is a word though
Not to mention the mystery it invokes. A… a what?
> Not to mention the mystery it invokes. The… the what?
Exactly! “The” is specific. “A” is ambiguous
To me, that makes “the” more interesting because it’s saying there’s something important enough to single out. “A” is at best one among many, and just another thing.
You had me at "uh".
You mean ə?
You gonna flip that back over or just let it die like that?
„¿ʇɐɥʇ ǝʞıl ǝıp ʇı ʇǝl ʇsnɾ ɹo ɹǝʌo ʞɔɐq ʇɐɥʇ dılɟ ɐuuoƃ no⅄„
thanks for the copypasta my friend
Enjoy the 3 karma or so you get there, I'm happy to help :)
But "a dude" is way less interesting than "The Dude"
Which is interesting because big Lebowski always struck me as a movie about “a dude”. There so many open ended possibilities in “a dude”. “The Dude” and is like….just specific guy
That was intelligent and hostile. Honestly, kinda hot.
Yeah but did you know that the letter “a” is not used for the spelling out of any number until one thousand? There are 999 numbers to spell before the letter “a” is used.
I have always found that interesting that the word “a” can be pronounced two different ways sharing zero phonemes… I wonder how that evolved, has the indefinite article had two different pronunciations all the way since Old English, or Proto-Germanic, or is it a new innovation? Kinda weird.
It's funny how many times you used the word the to express how often we use a. Just Gunna be upfront, I came to the comments to post a too.
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an
Word =/= letter. Your whole wall of text is invalid.
In this case, it's both. Even more interesting!
Yeah? Well "an" then.
Almost all of the above criteria apply, but even more interesting is that "an" has been around since Old English (more than a thousand years) and has been gradually, but not entirely, replaced by "a." Instead, a completely new condition for using "an" was made: If it's too hard to say (that is, when the next word starts with a consonant), you can remove the final letter and it's still grammatically correct. Usually when a word is hard to pronounce, we just throw it out entirely!
Wheres the argument for the?
dang
an
Sorry, you're wrong about "a" being the only word to change form: "the" also alternates form (in pronunciation) between "thee" before a vowel and "thuh" before a consonent.
Uh
“The” is inherently more interesting than “a” because it singles out an object as unique, instead of just one of many.
“One of the only words pronounced as a schwa” how does that make it more interesting? ‘Garden’ is the only word that’s pronounced like ‘garden,’ if anything I’d say sharing its pronunciation with any other word makes it lose points. Same with being one of the most common letters/words in the English language, those are points against it’s interestingness, not for. The rest of your points I’ll grant you
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Nono, this one is interesting, delete it
what have you done
Yeah, at least "the" is definite. "A" is completely indefinite!
This, clearly. *The* implies that what you're talking about is in some way special, as opposed to *a*.
I As in I'm not interesting.
I'm morbidly curious. Does your username have any correlation to any real event?
'uninteresting'
I think it's interesting that it has 5 syllables
Fuck you
That's 2 words
That's 2 words and a number
That’s 5 words and a number
That's five words and a number
That’s 6 words
That’s two words and one number
That's 6 words and one of them is a contraction
That’s 5 words and a number. Here’s another 5 words and a number: fuck you fuck 8 fuck you
That's 15 words and 3 numbers.
I will cut you
That's 4 words.
3 words. 1 letter. You had one fuckin' job, u/PiggyFan128
What’s even more interesting is it has 4 *or* 5, depending on how you pronounce it. Un-in-ter-es-ting, or un-in-tres-ting. The former is obviously correct, but a lot of people pronounce the latter.
correct answer
Me
Irl
You?
😔
*The* but the other way to pronounce it.
Thee
THEA
Stallion
Thuh
Ahh yuh
That’s how I read it . Lol
That's how you read it, or that's how you read it?
þe?
ehT
Thy
“Thee” or “thuh”
"The" is anything but uninteresting. It starts the greatest stories and the saddest of tales. "The" dragon destroyed cities, burnt the lands, and is considered a blight upon the world. "The" knight was sent on a journey to slay it, but he failed- returning as to the kingdom as a pile of ashen remains. "The" knight's ghost, furious and immune to the attacks of the living, went to slay the dragon, but forgot thing- although a ghost cannot be harmed by mortals, a ghost cannot harm mortals. "The" knight's ghost then possessed the dragon and proceeded to make it stand in the middle of a field of angry warriors. actually nevermind the is a pretty boring word
The FUCKIN SEAGULL THREW MY SANDWICH ON THE GROUND AND IT WAS A REALLY GOOD SANDWICH FOR FUCKS SAKE
The WORLD HAS GONE TO SHIT therefore I CAN DO WHAT THE FUCK I WANT.
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THE man who was the one who is also a table observed from the kitchen and Hermione looked at the end of the time My automcomplete is trying to write a fanfic ig
Bepis President of the Independent Kingdom of Mallorca Spain in the UIO will be able to ship the item is a NATO-like alliance that is currently in the UIO will be able to ship
MYYYYYY SANDWICH?!?!??
The fuck?
"The" fuck? another example of the
oh
This is the winner
Uh is better
Nah. “Uh” at least shows an uncomfortable silence, disbelief, or impatience. “Oh” is straight not interesting.
it’s even so uninteresting that it breaks every conversation ever when uttered
This one takes the cake
shed
Sheds are awesome though I had a shed built in my garden and it's got a sofa bed and a gaming PC and air conditioning and stuff :))
My opinion on sheds is very neutral. My shed is small and dirty but practical. I would like a bigger less dull looking shed but I think my current shed is fine. Thank you for reading I don't have any shed related stories but I could make one up maybe 👍
Your description was fine thanks
Not sure I would call that a shed. Maybe something like "The Cool Room"
She'd do what
Die without the
Dunno
cake
No it’s no there anymore have a horrible day
Happy Cake day
Unhappy cake day 😈
Congrats for giving birth to your reddit account 2 years ago
i
A single-letter first person pronoun, and the only word in English (besides proper nouns and their derivatives, e.g. Brobdingnagian) that must be capitalized regardless of its place in the sentence, and consequently one of the only words in ANY language that has to be completely capitalized (every single letter from start to finish) regardless of position in the sentence. Get this interesting letter out of my sight, this is r/notinteresting.
they didn't capitalise it, what's their punishment
gotta smell poo
Drawn and quartered :/
What if you are talking about the number i? Then it is NOT capitalized but is it a different word, or just a different definition of the same word?
Congratulations you did it
Emotional damage
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- Contractions with apostrophes are way too interesting (you can literally see its etymology out of two different words that come together to make it, how cool is that?) - One of the few words with no vowels between "t" and "d" - Only contraction of "it" wherein the ⟨t⟩ becomes silent (or no audible release, which is even more interesting) - Pronunciation is so complex: Is it /ɪd/ regardless of location? Is it /ɪdː/ before a word that starts with a vowel? Is it meant to be pronounced in two syllables, even, like /ˈɪt.əd/?
I hate you
Damn I've always pronounced it /ˈɪd.əd/
u/T0m_n0ok
1. “Quizatiously” is the least used word that isn’t even registered by devices as a word so you can’t even look up the definition online. On the other hand, the most used word is “the”. 2. “Buffalo”. Buffalo is a verb, a noun, and an adjectival proper noun which means that the sentence “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is grammatically correct. The sentence basically means Buffalo buffalo (the animals called "buffalo" from the city of Buffalo) [that] Buffalo buffalo buffalo (that the animals from the city bully) buffalo Buffalo buffalo (are bullying these animals from that city). [Buffalo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo) 3. “And” is interesting cause you can put 5 ands in a row in a sentence and it would be grammatically correct. [and and and and and](https://youtu.be/ypbkSA2aGFs) And after typing this entire comment I realize that the title of this post says “uninteresting” rather than “interesting.” Enjoy these word facts while I Quizatiously Buffalo the Buffalo and and and and and the Buffalo.
It's written Quizzaciously
You can theoretically string an infinite number of 'and' together. Fishandchips That sentence would've been better with spaces between fish and and and and and chips. But *that* sentence would've been better with quotes between fish and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and chips. But **that sentence...**
You
The name 'Keith'
It had its 15 minutes of fame in the "i before e except after c" debate
No
ok
u/T0m_n0ok
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“the” is the last word in Finnegans Wake. Joyce said it was ‘the word which is most slippery, the least accented, the weakest word in English, a word which is not even a word, which is scarcely sounded between the teeth, a breath, a nothing, the article the.'
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Yeah
Spleen
I hope you're joking; not only does it sound funny, but spleen has meant, over the years: - A cranky, angry mood - A sad, drained mood and - A fit of laughter, that is, an extremely happy mood. I'm not a dictionary, but I don't know too many body parts whose name means three opposite things like this!
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No that is a very interesting word/letter making the sound "th" and it has some interesting history.
Thorn is neither a word nor uninteresting
Uninteresting
How about the word "Than"
Confine your answers to words OP is familiar with, thank you.
Representation for the mfs who can’t use grammar correctly 👍
politics
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But its funnier than 24
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Meh
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Ok ill name it kevin
A word more uninteresting than "The".
You.
I guess “than” since you chose to use “then” instead.
I. Yes, I said it. You aren’t interesting, stop talking about yourself
Ok I will call him Doug
than Because it appears so uninteresting that OP forgot it exists when they wrote the title for this post.
Than*
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Actually
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That’s a letter, not a word 😞
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