How To Use Syllabic In A Sentence

The Cree syllabics on the glacial till granite boulder base say: ‘I am the big bear.’
As to the charge of ‘pseudo-intellectual revisionism’ I don't think this means much of anything beyond polysyllabic name-calling.
He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
the syllabic `nl' in `riddle'

Schiff's forms depend (like Marianne Moore's) on interlocking enjambments, on syllabics, and on baroque grammar, or else (unlike Moore's) on dense repetitions derived from Provençal forms.
The reason is that some of these disyllabic prepositions are used as adverbs, and, when separated from their nouns, give one the impression that they are used as adverbs. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables. Archive 2007-08-01
My only cavil about Aden Gillett's neurotically suave Charles is that he sometimes puts emotion before diction so that you lose the full richness of his past relationship with the vividly polysyllabic Mrs Winthrop-Llewellyn.
She is a scholar specializing in the syllabic script created by women in Jiangshui, Hunan.
One particular quirk of syntax occurs remarkably often in both poems: duplication of a monosyllabic word with asyndeton, within a line.
If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables. Archive 2007-08-01
It's that tripping, multi-syllabic word that sounds like a bell clanging: "tintinnabulation" that I love so much. Edgar Allan Poe: On his birthday, a celebration of his words
As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
They should be ruled rather by accent than by mere beat, but in no case may there be a line or lines which cannot be read as decasyllabic without difficulty or hesitation.
Shakespeare chooses names for them that are similar almost the the point of interchangeability: Hermia, Helena, both trisyllabic, beginning in 'He' with the stress on the first syllable and ending in 'a'. Shakespeare
Went to a lecture on Linear B; the lecturer was Italian and impressed upon all twelve students how difficult a syllabic script (such as Linear B) is.
More precisely, you adapt a variation of decasyllabic meter, where your lines alternate between thirteen and seven syllables each.
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has been both clever and deceptive in giving this kind of polysyllabic, clinical name to even mild, transient versions of common ailments as a way of persuading both doctors and patients that their new, potent drugs are essential to our well-being. Dr. Andrew Weil: Let's Take the Stomachache Out of Health Care Reform: One Patient's Story
For all the score's mad energy, the dramatic shapes are never in doubt, the climaxes are effective and the syllabic patter even starts to sound like real conversation, comic yet frantic.
He was too busy mispronouncing polysyllabic words, invading countries and getting mixed up about weapons of Mass Destruction to be able to show up and admit that "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" was his favorite Oscar-winning tune. Barack Obama, no one cares about your favorite Oscar song
It's particularly galling that German-speakers, not noted for syllabic parsimony, have no problem with it.
A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.
The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of scripts: modified Chinese characters called kanji (漢字), and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana (平仮名) and katakana (片仮名). WN.com - Business News
This influence of the chief accent affects also combinations of two monosyllabic words which make an iambus, and combinations like _ego illi_, _age ergo_, in which the second syllable of the second word is elided. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
Usually, in the long lines, the inner accent falls on the fourth syllable, with syllabic stress on the eighth, and with cesura after the fifth syllable. Modern Spanish Lyrics
That must have been one hell of a polysyllabic conversation.
If one thinks of these roots on both the phonemic and phonetic levels, then one understands the resultant phonetic t(ʰ) as merely an allophone of *dʰ following *s (or perhaps more specifically tautosyllabic *s?) PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
Carl is also very sensitive to the syllabic pulse of a poem, and writes in a subtle music that correlates meaning with cadence.
Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese.
y'all: contraction of "you all," a more musical, streamlined, unisyllabic take on the 2nd person plural than the northern phonetic catastrophe "you'ze guys." but y'all is a sadly misunderstood contraction, all too often torturously overused in fictional settings wherein "southernness" must be conveyed. in fact, y'all is rather more complicated than a mere drawling exercise in vowel manipulation, and only an ignorant yankee would treat it as such. Cherie puts her M.A. to marginally good use
It is not for Mr. Buckley to admit to an inattentive memory and careless writing when the polysyllabic evasion of "antonomasia" is available. Happy Days Are Here Again
Georges' wife, who works for a successful editor, is concerned: not least for their monosyllabic son, Pierrot, a young swimming champ.
The later _Heroides_ have two pentasyllabic pentameter-endings, XVI 290 The Last Poems of Ovid
So a disyllabic wordform in Mid IE MIE of the shape *CVC.CV- should have preserved its final schwa because if it had disappeared, it might create problems with the distribution of the consonants in the remaining syllables1. What happened to Pre-IE's inanimate thematics?
Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. Archive 2009-05-01
Resolutely accentualist in his outlook, he argued in a series of ‘Letters,’ that trisyllabic feet, whether dactylic or anapaestic, are fully congenial to English, ‘in spite of the Antijacobin’.
We measured this polysyllabical echo with great exactness, and found the distance to fall very short of Dr. Plot's rule for distinct articulation; for the doctor, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows a hundred and twenty feet for the return of each syllable distinctly; hence this echo, which gives ten distinct syllables, ought to measure four hundred yards, or one hundred and twenty feet to each syllable; whereas our distance is only two hundred and fifty-eight yards, or near seventy-five feet, to each syllable. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
His sixty-four lines of rhyming hendecasyllabic couplets are juxtaposed with a considerably briefer fifty-three lines of English free verse.
DI; the capitals denote values of syllabic signs were ignored in favour of geminate versus simple: word-initial TI or DI to write the same word, but contrasting AT-TI or AD-DI vs. Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan
In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other.
Moreover, as noted in section 5.2.1, there is a marked tendency for polysyllabic words to commence with a stressed syllable.
An antiphon usually refers to a syllabic setting of a brief Scriptural text sung before and after a psalm or canticle.
The narrative is in octosyllabic couplets until the fox gets busy and then it becomes mere fluid. The Times Literary Supplement
Another way is Old School—unsmiling, monosyllabic, The Rock in Early Terminator mode. 'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel
Dried beef strips, garnished with watercress from the fringes of the spring, and monosyllabic responses from Touchstone. SABRIEL
Show your personality, be engaging and avoid monosyllabic answers. The Sun
A note on glides, syllabicity and tone in Gurung.
He splashed his steaming cup of multisyllabic coffee into the big asshole's face. Morning Joe
Hmong is monosyllabic and tonal, meaning that it consists mainly of one-syllable words and that the tone of a word affects meaning.
But it is replied, with sufficient evidence of truth, that although the word be not found syllabically used unto this purpose, yet there are exceptive expressions equivalent unto it; as we shall see afterwards. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
the nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'
Early Elizabethan anthems were modelled on the Latin antiphon or motet, but they cautiously followed the queen's injunction by being largely syllabic, with a minimum of counterpoint.
Emotional literacy is central to the course and pupils reel off multisyllabic words with ease. Times, Sunday Times
Speaking clearly and confidently in sentences rather than monosyllabic grunts makes an enormous difference. Times, Sunday Times
Owen had been very short with him, his answers to Sam's questions almost monosyllabic.
Now I'm just a refugee from over at the Gun Nut blog so my brow is a little more pronounced and I can't comprehend polysyllabic words nearly as well as the average water frother, but let me kinda turn the question around: when do you think someone's going to bring their bass tackle to the streamside and put a micropterus salmoides-sized butt-whippin 'on some fly anglers? Can a Fly Rod Win a Bass Tournament?
Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends.
The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.
He gives monosyllabic answers to the simplest of questions in a vain attempt to close down any area of questioning about his public life. The Sun
I for one would love to see those polysyllabic place names, like Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch, rendered in Cyrillic.
The wrenching of accent for metrical purposes, moreover, is not confined to the dissyllabic words which show the simple recession of accent. The Principles of English Versification
‘So he's what's made you so monosyllabic,’ she commented.
He's also under the impression that the word ‘dis’ evolved because ‘we are increasingly monosyllabic.’
That the language contained a very large number of monosyllabic words is, however, certain; and as phonetism is necessarily syllabic, we may assume that the earliest Egyptian scribes had a rich mine of syllabic forms to draw upon. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
‘While he is a great rhymester,’ he writes, ‘his songs eschew the accentual-syllabic metres of standard poetry.’
Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
There are signs of the latter's influence within Pedro de Cristo's music, including a fondness for narrow overall ranges 16 notes being typical in the works of Francisco de Santa Maria and in the early part of Pedro de Cristo's surviving output, syllabic declamation in crotchets, and the simultaneous use of a cambiata figure in one part and passing notes in another. Archive 2009-04-01
After that my vocabulary runs out of obscure polysyllabic words and I'm forced to just stutter, stammer and blurt out something like Oh yeah? Facebook for Fishing?
Rucellai's famous formal innovation is likewise significant here, for his is one of the earliest and most influential examples of versi sciolti, or unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse.
Her novel, Sanaaq, Canada's first work of fiction in syllabics, was started during the early 1950s.
These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
On examination, he was anxious, diaphoretic, and monosyllabic.
But in any century, syllabic romance metrics engage the ear while Latin quantitative metrics engage the mind.
Chief among these are phalaecean (also known as hendecasyllabics), which he employs in some forty poems, followed numerically by choliambic (which also bears the title scazon), the meter of eight poems.
His most powerful satirical weapon is his style, the deliberately cumbersome octosyllabic metre and comic rhymes.
The argument in favor of hexameter is thus analogous to Coleridge's endeavor to free himself from syllabic prosody in Christabel.
Then there is the way senators speak - at length, often alone in the august hall but for a C-Span camera, with bonus points for detailed digressions and polysyllabic words.
There are some few instances indeed wherein the subordinate accent is differently arranged, as parisyllabic, Constantinople. Miscellany
Settings are for three or four voices, mainly syllabic and homophonic, with the melody in the top voice.
He wrote the book, and much of the rest of his life's work, in rhyming anapestic meter, also called trisyllabic meter. APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed
However, in spontaneous speech, inter-syllabic coarticulations usually take the form of regressive assimilation.
(Either that or this transplant simply can't comprehend the term when spoken with a polysyllabic Dallas drawl.) The 'Riffs Interview: 'CYANIDE & HAPPINESS's' Dave McElfatrick tackles visas, viscera & American humor
Is a violence-packed action sequence best served by lyrical, multisyllabic flowery prose? Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Improve Your Authorial Voice Not By Writing, But By Watching
This approach is taken to avoid the loss of syllabic content through euphonic combination.
Giving pretentious or monosyllabic answers results in a very dull piece of TV. The Sun
While the stress count in each hemistich ranges from one to three (with the exception of the line in bold-face) there is no dominant foot or syllabic pattern.
Not in so many words: The words were all in polysyllabic legal language and therefore barely comprehensible. FOLLY
One day I learned in school about an alexandrine--and even today I still remember that an alexandrine was a type of poem some oldtimer wrote honoring Alexander the Great--and how an alexandrine fit a certain pattern based on syllabic time counted by iambs and I'll be damned if I learned where the caesuras go. Poetic Justice
We should all know to avoid polysyllabic jargon.
That verse wherein the accent falls on every third syllable, may be called trisyllabic verse; it is equivalent to what has been called anapestic; and we will still use the term anapest to express two unaccented and one accented syllable. Miscellany
Anastrophe occurs chiefly with dissyllabic prepositions. New Latin Grammar
= There are twenty trisyllabic pentameter endings in The Last Poems of Ovid
The n in the lattermost form is syllabic, plain and simple. Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan
The most outstanding of the Catalan translators was Josep Maria de Sagarra, who, starting in the 1940s, translated 27 plays into Catalan hendecasyllabic lines.
Whether fifty thousand words of prose action or fourteen decasyllabic lines of verse with a strict rhyme scheme, a genre is a list of the minimal conditions that a writer must meet. Genres and niche markets
The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.
Sino-Tibetan languages are distinguished from western language families by two main traits: isolating or monosyllabic characters and the use of tones.
With 26 letters to choose from, why do we keep fixing upon the only letter in the English alphabet with a polysyllabic name?
Greek has a polysyllabic vocabulary and it is often easier to communicate using something approximating to English - something that drives defenders of the Greek language wild with indignation.
In modern English all the disyllabic and trisyllabic words have only recessive stress, e.g. colour, marriage.
Occasionally two disyllabic feet occur in succession.
Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
Now I'm just a refugee from over at the Gun Nut blog so my brow is a little more pronounced and I can't comprehend polysyllabic words nearly as well as the average water frother, but let me kinda turn the question around: when do you think someone's going to bring their bass tackle to the streamside and put a micropterus salmoides-sized butt-whippin 'on some fly anglers? Can a Fly Rod Win a Bass Tournament?
With a remarkable 37 or so ingredients, many of which are polysyllabic chemical compounds, Twinkies would seem to embody the antithesis of that rule … What’s In A Twinkie? | Impact Lab
His famous formal innovation is likewise significant here, for his is one of the earliest and most influential examples of unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse.
Four lines, in _Locksley Hall_ rhythm, with a dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
Plus, it just sounds better as a trisyllabic epithet. Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor
However, although his actual name isn't Miltonic or especially literary, it is indeed trisyllabic with a disyllabic nickname, and Latinate, and has at least a sort of Early Modern connection. Ferule & Fescue
However, syllabication serves an important role in writing instruction, providing the writer with a basic formula and starting point.
Observations made indicate, for example, which child needs more assistance in phonics, syllabication skills, use of context clues, in creative and critical thinking, as well as in problem solving.
Patrick Ryan asserts that all language comes from a syllabic googoo language 100,000 years ago and seeks to prove it through a manic use of superlarge fonts, distracting graphics and an odd selection of music. Archive 2007-03-01
The piece begins with an unusual take on what H.W. Fowler called polysyllabic humour, ‘electrocardiogram’ and ‘phantasmagoria’ appearing in lieu of swear words.
A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
Martial V shows the proportion of non-disyllabic endings at 20\% -- the shorter the poem, the more freely they are admitted. The Last Poems of Ovid
Some Inuit leaders, such as John Amagoalik and Jose Kusugak, have long advocated a common writing system, and even a move from syllabics to Roman orthography.
Its metre is _ae freslige_ -- seven-syllable lines in a quatrain, rhyming _abab_: _a_ being trisyllabic, _b_ dissyllabic rhymes. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
I would have sensed if there had been any anxiety, but it was only the night before the race that he began to be monosyllabic.
Not only the syllabic arrangement, but the accentuation is the same; whereas in Latin, the accentuation is often counter; that is, an iambic dimeter in the Hirmos is answered by a trochaic dimeter in the Troparion. Hymns of the Eastern Church
He grunted a monosyllabic reply.
If he can find in the piece any one word the accent of which he already knows, that word will enable him to distinguish if it be parisyllabic or imparisyllabic. Miscellany
Now, Krikorian is right that final stress is rare in multisyllabic English words. What an unnatural stress pattern you have, Ms. Sotomayor! « Motivated Grammar
Sadly, this monosyllabically narrated featurette adds nothing to one's insight of the film.
Many we have discovered that return the cry of a pack of dogs, the notes of a hunting-horn, a tunable ring of bells, or the melody of birds very agreeably; but we were still at a loss for a polysyllabical articulate echo, till a young gentleman, who had parted from his company in a summer evening walk, and was calling after them, stumbled upon a very curious one in a spot where it might least be expected. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
I once met a female scholar whose disyllabic name included the character nan 男. Languagehat.com: THE PARTICULATE RULE.
Like other languages of the Sino-Tibetan group, Burmese is monosyllabic.
No birth certificate for Palin to question, no cue cards to help her with the spelling and/or pronunciation of multisyllabic country names like... Morris W. O'Kelly: God Bless Sarah Palin, God Bless America
A succession of books followed, mostly easy readers that told tales of the Revolutionary War through colorful pictures and monosyllabic words.
Obama, too, is now strongly associated with a straightforward, trisyllabic message -- "Yes we can" -- although instead of imperatively employing a negative of a negative ( "Don't be evil"), his is an optimistic, election-ready double positive. Teddy Wayne: Goobama: Obama Is the Google Candidate
We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list.
But when the inflectional form of language became so far advanced as to have its scholars and grammarians, they seem to have united in extirpating all such polysynthetical or polysyllabic monsters, as devouring invaders of the aboriginal forms. The Coming Race
There are not very many monosyllabic English nouns that have successfully resisted being verbed, but faith is one of them.
Plus, if I just threw in some multisyllabic words, extended my sentences until each was a paragraph long, and used "darkling" a few times, I'd be the Faulkner of Phoenix. Gayle Lynds: "Aping" Her Betters
Each word in the lexicon, though technically equal to any other, derived its potency from its gelastic index - a calculation consisting of letter count, syllabic complexity, and its mirthpoint, as experienced by the word's wielder. High Jinks
An autological word describes itself, e.g., ˜polysyllabic™ is polysllabic, ˜English™ is English, ˜noun™ is a noun, etc. Epistemic Paradoxes
Therefore, the directionality of Chengdu trisyllabic tone sandhi can be predicted by the interaction between faithfulness constraints and markedness constraints.
At least half of the stuff on the tiny screen made no sense at all, just a lot of high tech polysyllabic gobbledygook that was real impressive but could've been Greek for all she knew.
And now I think about it, the Sanskrit accent actually makes a point in favor of the bisyllabic version of the word parśú- which is, due to the consonant 'grade', expected to be oxytone I think. Battling the Indo-European axe
They cling to polysyllabic professors who find clever ways to say the same dumb things over and over again.
And there's that love of Latin, obscure and polysyllabic words.
Moreover, there are in the language so many dissyllabic words of trochaic movement that the resulting frequent coincidence of word and foot tends to produce monotony. The Principles of English Versification
So I eventually called up the helpline, and the monosyllabic customer advisor at the end of the phone informed me that there was indeed a delay.
Unlike Southwell's four other nativity poems, this one is written in decasyllabic six-ains, which we find frequently in his poetry.
And both these words, as well as individual, which must be treated more at length in the next section, are illustrations of a tendency that we have called polysyllabic humour and discussed in the Chapter Airs and Graces. Slang.
Having inspected the larder, Mary decided to prepare a steak pudding and when Bertha's monosyllabic husband, Davy, took a second helping her fate was sealed.
She shifted her weight and looked at the ceiling. ‘Well, for one I guess I could try and not be completely closed off and monosyllabic.
A clear-cut distinction cannot always be made between alphabets proper and syllabaries, sets of syllabic symbols as in the Japanese kana systems.
A clear-cut distinction cannot always be made between alphabets proper and syllabaries, sets of syllabic symbols as in the Japanese kana systems.
Firstly, Carroll is an unreliable waste-of-space who never turns up for things, is always surrounded by mates, and only engages in banter or is monosyllabic and unforthcoming in his one-to-ones with Allen.
Omniglot is an interesting site about writing systems, which it classifies in alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, and alternative systems describing real and fictitious languages. Reflective Surface - Omniglot
Africa, speak a polysynthetic language, and _per contra_, that the Otomis of Mexico have a monosyllabic one like the Chinese. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
The Coptic is an uncultivated and formal tongue, with monosyllabic roots and _rude inflexions, totally different_ from the neighbouring languages of Syria and Arabia, _totally opposite_ to the copious and polished Sanscrit. Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
For Ovid's use of trisyllabic and pentasyllabic endings, see at ix 26 The Last Poems of Ovid
Thus, if the first line end with an accented monosyllable, the second line will end with a dissyllabic word accented on its first syllable, or if the first line end with a dissyllable accented on its penultimate the second line will end with a trisyllable accented on its ante-penultimate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Mark Twain scores lower than Reader's Digest in one calculation, because, I'm guessing, he likes to insert periods, spices things up with some very short sentences, and edits out stuffy polysyllabic words.
They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii The English Is Coming!
An antiphon usually refers to a syllabic setting of a brief Scriptural text sung before and after a psalm or canticle.
He knows then that it is parisyllabic verse and from that he can accent the whole piece. Miscellany
Examining the ingredient listing is also a challenge in polysyllabic pronunciation techniques, not to mention requiring a chemistry reference book to understand what we are reading.
eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing
The opening couplet divides ten monosyllabic words evenly between two lines.
A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
But even Claire is surprised when Carl takes the microphone and throws out "complicated multisyllabic lines with apparent ease," telling "a witty, articulate tale about the various obstacles in the spiritual and material progress of a young black man. Is Rap Poetry?
I present a new breed of cultural critic, unleashing a fresh brand of polysyllabic pontification.
The language has innumerable binomial compounds and collocations, as well as many "sesquisyllabic" or polysyllabic words of Khmer or Indic origin that contain unstressed vowels, so that the phonological texture of the language is very different from that of uncompromisingly monosyllabic languages like Chinese and Vietnamese.
N " is a syllabic consonant in " button " .
The intercom gave only a monosyllabic grunt. Bomber
Jo answered, spitting out each monosyllabic word.
Whereas in New England, with Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenues and plenty of Connecticut Avenues in other places, the polysyllabic names cry out for shortening.
While the stress count in each hemistich ranges from one to three (with the exception of the line in bold-face) there is no dominant foot or syllabic pattern.
All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.
Surely this precocious, polysyllabic facility is an invaluable boon to cognitive development.
Farwell also exhibits a Gibson-esque fascination with polysyllabic techno-gobbledygook.
This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic. Poems and Fragments
I think I'll stick to monosyllabic and disyllabic words today.
Such are aural resources that a Tennysonian syllabic ironist like Dickens can elsewhere mobilize, and in the context of epochal dissonance rather than the restorative harmony of Little Dorrit, when, in describing the roar of a locomotive in Dombey and Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Aboriginal songs include many kinds of vocalizations ranging from growling, grunting, and shrieking to bitonal syllabic chanting.
Skelton used the octosyllabic metre, and a rough manner which was to be paralleled in later times by Butler in Hudibras, and by Swift.
As the examples show, a syllabic consonant is marked phonetically with a subscript vertical dash See L, M, N, R.
What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
He would give only monosyllabic replies, such as " Yes " and " No ".
No more biblish, no more tiresome polysyllabic nonsense, no more mundane middle-class mutterings.
“New York tawk features a diphthongal aw sound,” Elster observes, “that in heavy New Yorkese sounds almost disyllabic.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
the nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'
He is permanently monosyllabic unless the subject happens to be narrow-gauge North American railways, and he never uses a word where a silent, dismissive glare would do.
John Gurney said that what he liked about the decasyllabic line was that it could be made close to conversation but was yet ` something better than prose’.
Most, in fact, find themselves asking the class how to pronounce polysyllabic words, how to operate a projector or where they can find whiteboard markers.
I chat away, only to be met with monosyllabic answers. Times, Sunday Times
These four movements are variously named: the first two are called _falling_, the second two _rising_; 1a and 2a are called _duple_ or _dissyllabic_, 1b and 2b _triple_ or _trisyllabic_; 1a is called The Principles of English Versification
This was a lot of theory to put on a hitherto monosyllabic himbo's shoulders.
Sidesplittingly, the free on line poker is far soughingly from decasyllabic langsat that they elemi not yet pragmatical dreyfus that shrublet slighting is, accommodatingly, staggeringly. Rational Review
And monosyllabic- `yes mem, no mem" in response to her orders. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
In the corridor there were orders given and monosyllabic assents.
There is no other pathway to empowerment, regeneration, capacity-building, participation, and all the other polysyllabic words in the jargon of a development, which serves its practitioners rather than its beneficiaries.
While there is no syllabic verse in existence that may be dated earlier than AD 650, such metres dominated for the next millennium.
They could subtly deliver literate, polysyllabic dialog without having to awkwardly strain, as do our young actors today, who grow up with the illiterate cinema, not the stage.
The translation of the Indian name of this female is Woman of the Green Valley; or, according to the polysyllabical system of her people, O-she-wush-ko-da-wa-qua. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.

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