I've always wondered how others pronounce <A HREF="http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php" TARGET=_blank>OEDILF</A> (the omnificent English dictionary in limerick form).How do you pronounce the acronym OEDILF?N/A. I don't subvocalize, thank you very much. I don't move my lips while reading either.EED illfED illfWED illfIt's an initialism. Oh Ee Dee Eye Ell Eff.

The official way (i.e. as approved on the site) is O'Dilf.

This is how I'd probably pronounce it so I voted N/A. Thinking about it now though whenever I've said it to anyone I've spelled it out Oh Ee Dee Eye Ell Eff so I should have voted for that one. Why, though, I am moved to ask, is a non-contributer even concerned?

I say oh-DILF, myself, when I am vocalizing and moving my lips, so I could not vote because that choice was not there. It should e pronounced EE-dilf, though, shouldn't it? So I'll just have to rationalize that the "E" is silent.

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I guess I should've put in an answer "Other". I've always said EDilf. I can't remember if I ever contributed, but I signed up as a member during week one or so.

I'd have said "Other". I think of it a OH-EE-DILF.

I pronounce the word OEDILF Oh-dilf although I think in my head Odd-Elf for some reason. Probably because I think of Chris when I think of OEDILF and he sure is an odd elf!

Interesting question, zmj, because I had just written a limerick on our limerwiki that no one reads (sob! sob!) and used OEDILF. My recollection from some early posts there was that they pronounced it, "oh-DILF." So, I chose number one because nothing else seemed to fit.

I find pronunciations very interesting. I would never have even thought about "ee-dilf" or "wee-dilf." Yet, now I see your point.

I read it. It pops up an alert when something changes and I read it. I haven't written ANY limericks in the last six months so it isn't poor little limerwicki's fault that I'm not posting. I'm just in a bit of a dry patch limerickwise lately

Very nice, Hic (cup).

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Here on Wordcraft, he is
Extraordinaire!

Lim'ricks, DDs he will
Write with such ease that he's,
Incontrivertibly,
Mean and unfair!

[Kidding, of course, Hic, but you are sooo good!]