Words that begin with either a long 'A' or a short 'A' Quiz

LONG A WORDS
Nut of the oak tree
A type of beer, sometimes brown or pale
If it falls from grace, it loses its wings
Gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans, e.g.
Worn by cooks, carpenters and butchers
World's largest continent
Large living space for birds
Month with a foolish beginning
Past tense of eat
Highest point
Sandwiched between ready and fire
Ridley Scott film starring Sigourney Weaver
You might have this card up your sleeve
Discrimination against older people
It equals 4,840 square yards

SHORT A WORDS
Query
Streep. Hepburn. Mirren. Paltrow.
Pre-calculator calculator?
Your home has one, your email is one
Capital of Ghana
Used to brown nose teachers and keep docs away
Not crocodile
22nd state admitted to the Union
Some like them on pizza or Caesar salad
Plant whose taste is similar to licorice
Cancer-causing insulator
Different from horns in that they are shed
It is similar to a llama, its fiber is similar to wool
Fear of heights
Sea snail whose shell is used in jewelry

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Long 'n' Short: A Words Quiz

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Created Dec 2, 2012 in Language
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	WyattsTorch:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 19:36 GMT		2 points
	How about "aerie" as an alternate for "aviary"?

	prouvaire:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 19:48 GMT		5 points
	If an "aviator" falls from grace, wings are also lost.

	atomic_sunshine:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 19:51 GMT		0 points
	Wow, with all the Sporcle quizes on geography, kinda mind blowing that only 35% got the capital of Ghana. Surprised.

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	Meltha:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 20:59 GMT		0 points
	I've never heard fallen angels lose their wings. A lot of artists depict devils with batwings or black feathered wings. Granted, I have no first hand knowledge of that, though, so maybe you're right.

	littlemermaid:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 21:05 GMT		4 points
	I adore this amazing quiz! As all can see, I am not awesome at alliteration.

	milkmeister:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 21:06 GMT		7 points
	"Ask" is a bit controversial. Plenty of people do not pronounce that with a short "a" - the entire population of London pretty much just for starters. Otherwise, a fine idea and execution of a quiz.

	ezois:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 21:10 GMT		-1 points
	I had to go through a few states starting with a.

	JonoQ:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 21:10 GMT		-1 points
	The first vowel in the capital of Ghana is prounounced as a schwa, not a short 'a' - check on Wikipedia.

	TheCleverone:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 21:22 GMT		0 points
	Your home has one, your email is one - annoyance?

	kimfetti:	Mar 9th, 2013 at 22:22 GMT		7 points
	Totally tried "adipose" for the cancer-causing insulator.

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	JoeFd:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 00:55 GMT		2 points
	Completely misunderstood the meaning of 'long A words' and 'short A words', and spent the quiz wondering why some of the answers in the left column had less letters than those on the right!

	MePerson:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 01:53 GMT		1 point
	World's largest continent... Africa! No? Australia? AMERICA?! (2 minutes later) OH MY GOD ASIA

	barnztormre:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 02:05 GMT		2 points
	Fonzie's favorite quiz. :)

	lyss027:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 02:59 GMT		-1 points
	Haha, I'm from Philadelphia...a lot of those short As are long for me! :)

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	ChileNoseJam:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 03:44 GMT		0 points
	Is "ask" with a short A sound the US pronunciation? Everyone I know in the UK says it with a long A.

	Zak6009:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 03:51 GMT		0 points
	I was totally confused looking at the column heads before actually reading the question. "Acorn? Thats not really a long word... well I guess 5 letters can be long. ALE? A LONG 'a-word'? Okay clearly I'm missing something."

	Upside:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 03:59 GMT		-1 points
	@WyattsTorch @bigturnip http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=aerie

	bobalicious309:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 12:45 GMT		1 point
	Blah, Anchovies.

	SJAROX99:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 15:08 GMT		0 points
	@ChileNoseJam- 2 things. 1) Great name. 2) I live in Britain and I've never heard anyone say it with a long A. It must be a regional thing.

	OwenHerring:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 20:01 GMT		1 point
	@SJAROX99 - I too live in Britain, and I didn't learn vowel lengths in this way (or if I did, it's been replaced in my mind by phonetics I learned later for my English degree). I think the 'long A in "ask"' may be the southern British "ahsk (or arsk)" as opposed to the northern "ask", as that's how I would understand a 'long A'.

	Vasiliy:	Mar 11th, 2013 at 18:25 GMT		-1 points
	I would say that both "ask" and "address" are pronounced with long [a], but that is going purely by vowel length, not by the diphthongization you find in the answers in the long [a] section. Meaning that "ask" is pronounced /ə:sk/, but not /eisk/. Similarly I find that including "aim" in the long [a] section is highly optional as the word is spelled with a diphthong.

	ratballs:	Mar 11th, 2013 at 20:24 GMT		-1 points
	Couple of points: (i) you could also accept "acme" for highest point; and (ii) I believe asbestos causes asbestosis, not cancer (although wikipedia states that asbestosis increases the risk of developing cancer, that's not the same thing).

	Hominid:	Mar 12th, 2013 at 00:23 GMT		1 point
	Ageism can also be discrimination against younger people.

	patchwar:	Mar 15th, 2013 at 14:11 GMT		2 points
	For 'Not crocodile', please accept Afghan Hound, Albatross, Allosaurus, Alpaca, Alpine Goat, Anaconda, ...

	Tom_Tildrum:	May 31st, 2013 at 18:55 GMT		1 point
	"Anise" has a short A? No wonder people would look at me weird when I said something tasted like "ay-nis."