2014-08-01 [Stephen]: [Triola], I agree with your poem. xD

2014-08-01 [Nioniel]: Awesome entries, everyone!

2014-08-01 [Mortified Penguin]: Winter's coming.

2014-08-02 [Triola]: [Stephen], and I don't even like winter! :P

2014-08-02 [Stephen]: Mort, what a creative twist of the theme. =P

2014-08-03 [wicked fae mage]: You beat me to it, [Stephen] xD

2014-08-03 [hannes]: Very good entries! And [Teufelsweib], I appreciate the cleverness in "A weekend well spent". :)

2014-08-04 [wicked fae mage]: [hannes], I'm counting six syllables on the last line of "desert dreams"

2014-08-04 [hannes]: You're right, apparently I can't count. I'll remove the poem (and replace it later, perhaps).

2014-08-04 [wicked fae mage]: It's okay, you were just one off. Not /that/ bad.

2014-08-04 [hannes]: :D

2014-08-05 [Sunrose]: Editing by phone is a pain >_<

2014-08-05 [Nioniel]: Seriously loving the entries! A lot of fun and creative haikus so far!

2014-08-05 [Mortified Penguin]: Elftown is definitely not phone friendly.

2014-08-05 [Sunrose]: I know, it's been terrible so far but my laptop takes ages to start up >_<

2014-08-05 [wicked fae mage]: [Sunrose], I count 8 syllables in line two

2014-08-05 [ally]: Explain...

2014-08-05 [wicked fae mage]: "The weather is in turmoil" as I pronounce it is:

the*weath*er*is*in*tur*moi*ul

So I count 8. But, if it is a pronunciation difference, do let me know.

2014-08-05 [Nioniel]: I pronounce it "tur-moyl", so I only get the two syllables for that one.

2014-08-05 [Mortified Penguin]: http://www.wordcalc.com/

2014-08-05 [Mortified Penguin]: Not that that link clears anything up or anything... apparently it says there are only six syllables.

But it is a pretty useful tool for haiku-ing!

2014-08-05 [hannes]: To me 'turmoil' is also only two syllables. :)

2014-08-05 [wicked fae mage]: Disregard my comment then, it is a difference in pronunciation, and thank you members for clarification. :)

2014-08-06 [Sunrose]: http://www.howmanysyllables.com/
Who is going to judge this contest? :P

2014-08-06 [hanhepi]: I was afraid when I started watching this contest that it'd be full of dry boring stuff, but I actually love all of these. >.<

2014-08-06 [Stephen]: The Literature Judges will judge it, of course!
Some of them, anyway. Plus the new one's we're working on deciding on. xP

2014-08-06 [Sunrose]: Ahas :P

2014-08-06 [Sunrose]: On another note. [wicked fae mage] can you upload a voiceclip on how you pronounce turmoil? voice clips

2014-08-08 [wicked fae mage]: As of now I cannot. I don't have anything that can record me speaking. And I'm American with a particular way of pronouncing the L sound on the end of words with more than one syllable. I cannot for the life of me remember the linguistic term for the two ways to pronounce the L sound though.

ter-moy-ul like the L sound in you'll. Because of my accent, it gets pronounced as if there is a u in front of the l.

2014-08-08 [Sunrose]: Yea that's why it would be cool to hear. Maybe some other time..

2014-08-09 [wicked fae mage]: Perhaps. Don't even have a mic to do that.

And I remembered it's a dark L and a light L. Dark L is pronouncing it as if there is a U in front of it, like in fool or pool. A light L is the Lah sound, usually with a vowel following it like in lax or a "short" vowel sound before it like in pal. (the dark L is a dead give-away of an American in 8/10 cases)

I honestly cannot even fathom how everybody else pronounces it to make it only 2 syllables :/

2014-08-09 [Nioniel]: Wait, so then you say "Poo-ul" and "foo-ul"?

I found this with sound clips: http://www.forvo.com/word/turmoil/

Now I'm only hearing "turmoil" with three syllables, though. :/ I've still never pronounced it that way.

^{Actually, this one only sounds like two syllables: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/turmoil}

2014-08-09 [Stephen]: I say it with three syllables. x)

2014-08-10 [wicked fae mage]: No, it's just commonly pronounced in the Appalachian region in some multiple syllable words as if there is a u in front of it. Turmoil is one of those words. Other words like boil and roil (pronounced exactly the same as royal if that helps) are pronounced similarly. The dark L is ül at the end of a lot of words for me and others in my regional dialect.

2014-08-11 [Stephen]: Yeeeah, 14 15 entries and counting! >:D

Go, go, go!

2014-08-11 [Nioniel]: x)

2014-08-11 [wicked fae mage]: And so many entries literally speak to each other!

2014-08-31 [Nioniel]:
Thank you all for the
Wonderful entries, but now
This contest is closed. :)

2014-09-01 [Sunrose]: Wow just in time x)