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[si-lab-uh-fi-kay-shuhn] / sɪˌlæb ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Therefore I must reject it as nonsense syllabification.

From Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley

His attention is called to syllabification as well as to diacritical marks.

From How to Teach Phonics by Lida M. Williams

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 Nathaniel Parker Willis

This was uttered with such blinding rapidity of syllabification as to be a better test of teetotalism than the Scotch one of saying "Biblical criticism" six times.

From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

As such they are the carriers of practically all significant differences in stress, pitch, and syllabification.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir




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