My vote is for a name that I just made up, Aarana. It’s the female form of Aaron, with all a’s. 😄
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
And the word “banana” might be a very promising candidate for the word with the highest “letter a”-to-consonant-ratio in the English language. Unless there are some double-a words out there…
cravl@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Hexanimo@kbin.earth 1 week ago
That's very close to spider in Spanish, araña.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 week ago
coughqueuecough
ValiantDust@feddit.org 1 week ago
Ara has twice as many As per consonant. Am and at have the same ratio as banana. But I’ll admit that two letter words is cheating.
moody@lemmings.world 1 week ago
But ‘a’ has an even higher ratio.
ValiantDust@feddit.org 1 week ago
Well, you got me there.
^(Actually the ratio can’t be calculated, since #a/#consonants = 1/0 and you can’t divide by 0 ^and ^that’s ^totally ^why ^I ^didn’t ^mention ^it…)
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
But is “Ara” an English word? My favorite translation page tells me that the English name of the bird is “macaw”. Still a nice A-ratio, although lower than for banana! :-)
ValiantDust@feddit.org 1 week ago
Wikipedia says so, so it must be true!
I guess we are entering the philosophical level of “what is an English word?” now. I don’t think I’m the right person to judge since I’m neither a native speaker nor a linguist. I’m fine with disqualifying ara.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
If we allow for scientific names, the winner would probably be “Aa”, the name of a type of plant.
But I personally would not count them, as not part of everyday language.
I asked an AI if it could come up with other suggestions. It burned up 5000 tokens while thinking and successfully found “Alabama”.
So I think banana lost its first place in any case…