syllabification

Example Sentences

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For further details on syllabification in our oldest Latin manuscripts, see Th.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)

Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words, has always the coherence of syllabification.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

What he said was unintelligible, but words were uttered; the syllabification was distinct.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Possibly the study might more accurately be called word-study, since it aims also at training for pronunciation, syllabification, vocabulary extension, and etymology.

From What the Schools Teach and Might Teach by Bobbitt, John Franklin

Therefore I must reject it as nonsense syllabification.

From Bad Medicine by Sheckley, Robert