syllabification
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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 E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
What he said was unintelligible, but words were uttered; the syllabification was distinct.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
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 John Franklin Bobbitt
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
Vocabulary lists containing syllabification
Words with 15 or More Letters, List 5
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