[Fictionary] KROOHPYYH results

[Jennifer L Smith]

I was suspicious of the [kr] cluster for the Finnish onomatopeia 
definition, too, but I didn't even notice the "problem" with the 
cooccurrence of [y] and [o] in the same form.

So that makes me generally curious about the status of vowel harmony (the 
tendency of front vowels [y (e?) ö ä], and back vowels [u o a], to cooccur 
with others of their group in the native Finnish vocabulary, [i (and e?)] 
being "neutral" if I remember correctly).  Maybe onomatopeia have looser 
requirements than other (non-loan) morphemes in Finnish.

> p.s. can you tell which of these places are in Finland and which are
> in Sri Lanka?

If I remember correctly, anything with a <w> spelling would have to be Sri 
Lanka?  That's an extremely amusing list, though.  It reminds me of this 
old list from McSweeney's:

"Figure Skating Term or Phonetic Symbol?"
<http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/figure-skating-term-or-phonetic-symbol>

Examples, to give you the flavor:

> 8. Counterclockwise Inside Mohawk
> 14. Closed Reverse Epsilon

> 20. Russian Split
> 21. Dutch Roll
> 22. Polish Hook

--Jen