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syllable

[sil-uh-buhl] / ˈsɪl ə bəl /


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Syllable by syllable, each actor may well be speaking authentic Philadelphian, but strung together all the accents become inconsistent, hard to understand and silly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2014

Syllable by syllable, it transported me back to the city where I spent my 20s and developed a perverse love for the broad “a” and the tough-sounding transmutation of “the” into “duh.”

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2013

And it is a fault to make Riot, for Example, one Syllable, as Milton has done in this Verse.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Bysshe, Edward

And it is a fault to make The and the first Syllable of the following word two distinct Syllables, as in this, Refrain'd a while by the unwelcome Night.Wall.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Bysshe, Edward

An Appoggiatura cannot be made on an unaccented Syllable.

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest




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