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It's been a while since I've played this, but talking about these games with a student yesterday got me feeling nostalgic for it.

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Just getting back into this.

Couldn't tell at first if that was an [l] or a nasal. And I guessed [z] for the last sound. My first guess was "finds" [fajndz], so I was thinking final devoicing.

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I did *not* know that word!

The playback isn't working for me - I can't confirm the vowel sequence there.

In the spectrogram, the shift is pretty subtle. For that last guess, I was sure it was a consonant I was missing - some little shift at the end of that /s/. But I can see how the vowel is very /i/-like.

What a great challenge for my first day back after a long break!

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#Gramle 546 2/5
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I spent a loooong time after that first guess, trying to figure out what actual word could fit.

First guess was that /ɹ/ was second in a cluster.

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Too tired - no discussion today.

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Not paying attention. I guessed a voiceless plosive at the start twice, before catching that there wasn't nearly enough aspiration. Not for English.

But I got there eventually. 🤓

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Well, I definitely would have transcribed that middle vowel differently (with a schwa at the end of it: [iə]). But I'm content with their transcription.

I was sure that first vowel just had a big transition into the following consonant - didn't occur to me for 3 guesses that it might be a diphthong!

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I feel really clever today. I was going to start with /h/, but realized that with a single syllable, I was probably looking at consonant clusters. Formants in the early noise and into the main vowel suggested /w/.

My first guess was "quotes", because I'm still not great at spotting open front vowels. 🙃

Anyway, 2 guesses feels pretty good!

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#Gramle 514 3/5
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Interesting plosive+affricate sequence there. I thought maybe an affricate before the second vowel, and a voiceless plosive after.

I'm pretty pleased with how informative my mistakes were in the first and second guesses - really drew a clear picture of how to revise my ideas for each next guess.

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