Talk:mayhem

In original common law criminal law, dismemberment

Updated legal definition

From California penal code section 203:

Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it useless, or cuts or disables the tongue, or puts out an eye, or slits the nose, ear, or lip, is guilty of mayhem.

Should this (or a summary of it) be included? Kevink707 (talk) 19:33, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

rioting

This is plausible, but I'm unfortunately unable find a reference for it. Wikipedia's article seems to have been set up to push users to Wiktionary because Wikipedia didn't have a reference, either. - -sche (discuss) 16:40, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

posttonic /h/

Is this a word with posttonic /h/, or are there people who don't pronounce it? I've never pronounced the /h/ in this word, but now that I think of it, Im probably in the minority, and maybe even nonstandard. —Soap— 00:16, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

I think in this word, as in vehicle, pronouncing the /h/ entails putting a secondary stress on the syllable. So they're either /ˈmeɪəm/ and /ˈviːɪkl̩/ with an unstressed syllable and no /h/, or /ˈmeɪˌhɛm/ and /ˈviːˌhɪkl̩/ with a secondarily stressed syllable and /h/. —Mahāgaja · talk 12:50, 26 April 2024 (UTC)